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Kassites

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Kassites or Cassites , ancient people, probably of Indo-European origin. They were first mentioned in historical texts as occupying the W Iranian plateau. In the 18th cent. BC they swept down on Babylonia , conquered the region, and ruled there until the 12th cent. BC, when they returned to the Iranian plateau. They remained more or less independent until the beginning of the Christian era, when they disappeared from history. Author not available, KASSITES. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

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cuneiform law
...cuneiform script ( cuneiform writing ). It includes the laws of the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Elamites, Hurrians, Kassites, and Hittites. Unlike modern legal codes, these ancient codes do not systematically treat all the rules applicable to a given... Read more

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	Administration and society in Kassite Babylonia. ; ...origin. He discusses eleven such groups: Ahlamu, Amorites, Sutians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Elamites, Hittites, Hurrians, (2) Kassites, Lullubians, and Ullipians. He identifies members of these units in the texts by various criteria: (a) groups or individuals... Read more
	2,500 Years of Life Between the Rivers ; ...says that the patriarch Abram leaves Ur for Canaan 1792 BCE: Amorite leader Hammurabi creates Babylonian empire 1600-612 BCE: Kassites, Hittites, Assyrians and Egyptians in ongoing competition for control of Mesopotamia 722 BCE: Assyrians conquer northern kingdom... Read more
	Hittite Lion Gate.(students study and comment on ancient art by the Hittites)(Brief Article) ; ...thus ending the dynasty of Hammurabi. The Hittites retired to their lands, leaving Babylon in the hands of the neighboring Kassites. The Hittites were a patriarchal, agricultural society. Their kingdom also contained rich iron deposits. They established a... Read more
	HISTORY OF IRAQ IRAQ, CALLED THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION, HAS BEEN FERTILE GROUND FOR UPHEAVAL AND CONQUEST.(Wire/National/International) ; ...controlled Mesopotamia? Dates are approximate 3360 B.C.Sumerians 2334 Akkadian Empire 900 Babylonian Empire 1600 Hittites and Kassites 953 Assyrians 612 Chaldeans 539 Persian Achaemenians (Iranians) 331 Greeks (led by Alexander the Great) 126 Parthian Empire... Read more
	(book reviews) ; ...Testament, and Talmud. The Babylonian woman refers to images of women found in texts of the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Kassites, Hittites, Canaanites, Greeks, and Romans. There are also comparative references to modern societies and cultures. The text... Read more
	The History of Iraq.(Book review) ; The History of Iraq. By Courtney Hunt. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005. 127 pp. $45. The History of Iraq is a Cliff's Notes' to Iraq's past that, according to its foreword, seeks to provide students and interested laypeople with [an] up-to-date, concise, and analytical history. Hunt, an Read more
	The Land of Hana: Kings, Chronology, and Scribal Traditions.(Book Review) ; ...contemporary with the Kassite king Kashtiliash, but in fact the same person, although she admits the evidence is still scanty. The Kassites were probably influential in the region north of Terqa by the end of the reign of Samsuiluna, and it is possible that Babylon... Read more
	HISTORY OF IRAQ IRAQ, CALLED THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION, HAS BEEN FERTILE GROUND FOR UPHEAVAL AND CONQUEST ; ...controlled Mesopotamia? Dates are approximate 3360 B.C.Sumerians 2334 Akkadian Empire 900 Babylonian Empire 1600 Hittites and Kassites 953 Assyrians 612 Chaldeans 539 Persian Achaemenians (Iranians) 331 Greeks (led by Alexander the Great) 126 Parthian Empire... Read more
	(book review) ; ...this reconstructed canonizing process and the transmission of literary texts from the Sumerians to the Babylonians, to the Kassites, to the Assyrians, to the Chaldeans, to the Persians through thousands of years of Mesopotamian civilization. An d the Greek... Read more
	Spat-altbabylonische Tontafeln: Texte und Siegelabrollungen.(Book review) ; ...kaskal e Kassi. Like its famous cousin, BM 78378 (Sd 11, CCS Text 7.150), this text refers to a possible separate community of Kassites in the Late OB period (e K. in VS 29 95, e.ha K. in BM 78378). Although regrettably there is much damage to the present tablet... Read more

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