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	Kassites - Crystalinks
		The Kassites had settled by 1800 BC in what is now western Iran in the region of Hamadan-Kermanshah.
		The Kassite upper class, always a small minority, had been largely "Babylonianized." Babylonian names were to be found even among the royalty, and they predominated among the civil servants and the officers.
		The Kassitic nobility, however, maintained the upper hand in the rural areas, their wealthiest representatives holding very large landed estates.
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	Kassites - Wikinfo
		Kassite kings established trade and diplomacy with Assyria, Egypt, Elam, and the Hittites, and the royal house intermarried with their royal families.
		Kassite seals and weights, the packet-identifying and measuring tools of commerce, have been found in Thebes in Greece, in southern Armenia, and even in a shipwreck off the southern coast of Turkey.
		Kassite rulers in Babylon were also scrupulous to follow existing forms of expression, and the public and private patterns of behavior 'and even went beyong that — as zealous neophytes do, or outsiders, who take up a superior civilization — by favoring an extremely conservative attitude, at least in palace circle.' (Oppenheim, p.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Kassites (2551 words)

	The Human Tribes: The Kassites
		OAT OF The Kassites are known as the cavalrymen and horse breeders of the Empire of Korweyn at the continent of Nybelmar.
		The Kassites are a tribe of cattle herders and horsemen.
		The Kassites follow close codes of honour in all their ways based on these traditions and especially courage and truthfulness are valued high and someone not living up to this standards is punished with the worst of Kassites' punishments: exile.
	www.santharia.com /tribes/humans/kassites.htm (2152 words)

	e. The Kassites, the Hurrians, and the Arameans. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		In the 17th century, the Kassites (Kassu) gradually moved into Babylonia from the northeast.
		After the Hittite raid on Babylon in 1595, the Kassites took the city.
		Enlil-nadin-ahhi (1159–1139) was the last Kassite king of Babylon.
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	The Kassites
		One Kassite invention was the boundary stone (kudurru), a block of stone that served as a record of a grant of land by the king to favored persons.
		The temples that the Kassite kings built or rebuilt are mainly in the Babylonian tradition, although one Kassite innovation was the use of molded bricks to form figures in relief.
		The Kassite upper class, always a small minority, had been largely "Babylonianized." Babylonian names were to be found even among the royalty, and they predominated among the civil servants and the officers.
	history-world.org /kassites.htm (1139 words)

	Kassites - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Kassite kings established trade and diplomacy with Assyria, Egypt, Elam, and the Hittites, and the Kassite royal house intermarried with their royal families.
		Kassite weights and seals, the packet-identifying and measuring tools of commerce, have been found in Thebes in Greece, in southern Armenia, and even in a shipwreck off the southern coast of Turkey.
		Kassite rulers in Babylon were also scrupulous to follow existing forms of expression, and the public and private patterns of behavior "and even went beyond that — as zealous neophytes do, or outsiders, who take up a superior civilization — by favoring an extremely conservative attitude, at least in palace circle." (Oppenheim 1964, p.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Kassites (1123 words)

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		Kassite kings established trade and diplomacy with Assyria, Egypt, Elam, and Hittites, and the royal house intermarried with their royal families.
		Kassite rulers in Babylon were also scrupulous to follow existing forms of expression, and the public and private patterns of behavior 'and even went beyong that — as zealous neophytes do, or outsiders, who take up a superior civilization — by favoring an extremely conservative attitude, at least in palace circle.' (Oppenheim, p.
		In the course of centuries, however, the Kassites were absorbed into the Babylonian population; Eight among the last kings of the Kassite 'dynasty' have Akkadian names, and Kassite princesses married into the royal family of Assyria.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/k/ka/kassites.html (817 words)

	Kassites / Cossaeans
		From Babylonian sources, it appears that the Kassites were a federation of several nomadic tribes (or clans) that lived in the valleys of the Zagros in the area that is now called Luristan (capital Khorammabad - still the center of a semi-nomadic tribe, the Luri's).
		In the seventeenth century BCE, the Kassites started to infiltrate Mesopotamia, which was ruled by the successors of the famous king Hammurabi of Babylon (1792-1750?).
		This would have been everything, but the Kassites, which seem to have been semi-autonomous in the Achaemenid Empire, unexpectedly return in our sources in the first weeks of the year 323, when the Macedonian king Alexander sets out from Ecbatana to Babylon, and on his way encounters, defeats, and destroys the Cossaeans.
	www.livius.org /k/kassites/kassites.html (340 words)

	Kassites
		But the Kassites are gone within a blink of an eye, as wave after wave of migrations put pressure on their fragile hold on power.
		Under the Assyrian king, Ashur-Dan, the last Kassite king was driven from the Babylonian throne in the twelfth century BC.
		We know very little about the Kassites except that their conquerors felt that they were barbarians and savages.
	www.wsu.edu /~dee/MESO/KASSITES.HTM (397 words)

	Kassites - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		Kassite kings established trade and diplomacy with Assyria, Egypt, Elam, and the Hittites, and the Kassite royal house intermarried with their royal families.
		Kassite rulers in Babylon were also scrupulous to follow existing forms of expression, and the public and private patterns of behavior "and even went beyong that — as zealous neophytes do, or outsiders, who take up a superior civilization — by favoring an extremely conservative attitude, at least in palace circle." (Oppenheim 1964, p.
		Under the Assyrian king, Ashur-Dan, the last Kassite king was driven from Babylonia in the twelfth century BC and the Indo-European "interregnum" in Mesopotamia came to a close.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Kassites (1018 words)

	Iranica.com - KASSITES
		The Kassite kings were called, by themselves and their colleagues in other Near Eastern states, "kings of the land of Kar(an)duniaæ," the latter being a term for Babylonia that may have been Kassite in origin (del Monte and Tischler, 1978, pp.
		The demise of the Kassite dynasty was caused mainly by external factors.
		The Kassites strove to be integrated in the culture of the conquered land.
	www.iranica.com /newsite/articles/ot_grp9/ot_kassites_20051223.html (4058 words)

	Kassites - LoveToKnow 1911
		KASSITES, an Elamite tribe who played an important part in the history of Babylonia.
		Like the other languages of the non-Semitic tribes of Elam that of the Kassites was agglutinative; a vocabulary of it has been handed down in a cuneiform tablet, as well as a list of Kassite names with their Semitic equivalents.
		Some of the Kassite deities were introduced into the Babylonian pantheon, and the Kassite tribe of Khabira seems to have settled in the Babylonian plain.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Kassites (241 words)

	Kassites
		Much is uncertain concerning the Kassites, we know little about their culture as well as where they came from.
		It is assumed that the Kassite society was a feudal one.
		Most of what the Kassites built was Babylonian in style — their only invention was to use molded bricks to create relief decorations in temple walls.
	i-cias.com /e.o/kassites.htm (243 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Kassites
		History Of The Babylonians And Assyrians: Kassite Conquest Of Babylonia And The Appearance Of Assyria.
		The dynasty which wrested the Babylonian throne from the Kassites was, as the names of its kings indicate, of native origin, and is called in the kings' list the dynasty of Pashe.
		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...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Kassites (1129 words)

	Kassites
		Much is uncertain concerning the Kassites, we know little about their culture as well as where they came from.
		It is assumed that the Kassite society was a feudal one.
		Most of what the Kassites built was Babylonian in style — their only invention was to use molded bricks to create relief decorations in temple walls.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/kassites.htm (243 words)

	Kassites
		The original homeland of the Kassites is obscure, but appears to have been located in the Zagros Mountains.
		The circumstances of their rise to power are unknown due to a lack of documentation from this so-called "Dark Age" period.
		Babylon under Kassite rulers re-emerged as a political and military power in the Near East.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/k/ka/kassites.html (830 words)

	Kassite - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Kassites (Akkadian Kashshū; Greek, Kossaioi or Kissioi), people of ancient south-western Asia.
		The Kassites, a people of non-Mesopotamian origin, were present in Babylon shortly after Hammurabi’s death in 1750 bc, and replaced the Babylonian...
		Under Kassite rule, Babylonia once again became a power of considerable importance.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Kassite.html (122 words)

	Kassites
		The Kassites were a mountain tribe that conquered Babylonia.
		The Kassites lived in the mountains northwest of Elam, immediately south of Holwan, when Sennacherib attacked them in 702 BC[?].
		Like the other languages of the non-Semitic tribes of Elam that of the Kassites, was agglutinative; a vocabulary of it has been handed down in a cuneiform tablet, as well as a list of Kassite names with their Semitic equivalents.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ka/Kassites.html (227 words)

	Hyksos - Midianites - Kassites
		Kassites are mentioned first historically in Elamite texts late in the 3rd millennium BC.
		Kassites regarded the horse to be their sacred animal - so this is a great indicator that
		he period of Kassite (Amorite) rule is a dark age in the fertile crescent, during which the Amorite language became dominant in Syria and Palestine - and is retained down to this day as Arabic.
	www.lexiline.com /lexiline/lexi49.htm (488 words)

	Hindunet: The Hindu Universe: Who were the Kassites? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One Kassite invention was the boundary stone (kudurru), a block of stone that served as a record of a grant of land by the king to favored persons.
		The temples that the Kassite kings built or rebuilt are mainly in the Babylonian tradition, although one Kassite innovation was the use of molded bricks to form figures in relief.
		Kassites: History has been unkind to the Kassites, a people who come onto the stage of history in the one of the most chaotic periods in the Middle East.
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	History of Iran: Iranologie.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Linguistic research relates the Kassite to the Indo-Iranians, but these are mainly extracted from the names of the deities, mentioned later in the Kassite history.
		The Kassite dominance of Babylon resulted in the introduction of horse to the Babylonian army, probably the result of earlier Kassite contacts with the Central Asian nomads.
		The remaining of the Kassite tribes who had managed to keep their own identity, retreated back to the high mountains of Luristan, where they eventually became part of the strong kingdoms of Elam and eventually the Persian Empire.
	www.iranologie.com /history/history1.html (3409 words)

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