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Cassites

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Cassites see Kassites . Author not available, CASSITES., The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008... Read more
Kassites
or Cassites , ancient people, probably of Indo-European origin. They were first mentioned in historical texts as occupying the W Iranian plateau... Read more
Babylonia
...having to stave off assaults. Early in the 18th cent. BC the Hittites sacked Babylon and held it briefly. The nomadic Kassites (Cassites), a tribe from Elam, took the city shortly thereafter and held it precariously for centuries. Babylonia degenerated into anarchy... Read more

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The land where civilisation began
; ...the crime. The Hammurabi Code is still in common use - 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth'. After Hummurabi's death, Babylonia fell under the control of the Cassites and then the Assyrians, who divided the circle into 360 degrees and were Read more

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