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I have never heard of the Mitanni empire.

Even though this history is very interesting, I fell like this has been omitted from our world history classes in high school on purpose.

Also, I never believed in the Indo-Aryan connection. I don't believe European languages are similar to Indian languages, our food culture is not similar, our customs are not similar, and genetically--we are not similar.

"The list of the Sanskrit names used in Syria and elsewhere was published by P. E. Dumont of the Johns Hopkins University, in the Journal of American Oriental Society in 1947, and one may see a summary of that in my own book chapter on Akhenaten, Sūrya, and the Ṛgveda, which is available here [4]. The names of the main kings are (with the standard Sanskrit form or meaning inside brackets): The first Mitanni king was Sutarna I (good Sun). He was followed by Baratarna I (Paratarṇa, great Sun); Paraśukṣatra (ruler with axe); Saustatar (Saukṣatra, son of Sukṣatra, the good ruler); Paratarṇa II; Artadama (Ṛtadhāman, abiding in cosmic law); Sutarṇa II; Tushratta (Daśaratha or Tveṣaratha, having ten or fast chariots); and finally Matiwazza (Mativāja, whose wealth is thought), during whose lifetime the Mitanni state became a vassal to Assyria."

So Joshua was able to conquer the Canaanites and take Palestine around the same time that the Mitanni took control of the northern Canaanite territory.

Joshua 3:10: Before crossing the Jordan River, Joshua tells the Israelites that God "will drive out the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites and Jebusites" before them.