The term ASIA PEOPLE can be broken down into five crossword solutions: Hittites (8 letters), Shan (4 letters), Uighurs (7 letters), ARAL (4 letters), and Ionia (5 letters). The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who established an empire in the Middle East around 1600 BC. The Shan are an ethnic group from Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. The Uighurs are a Turkic ethnic group living in Central and East Asia. The ARAL are an ethnic group from the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Lastly, the Ionia were an ancient Greek-speaking people who lived in the central western coast of Anatolia.