Kassite


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Noun1.Kassite - a member of an ancient people who ruled Babylonia between 1600 and 1200 BCKassite - a member of an ancient people who ruled Babylonia between 1600 and 1200 BC
Caucasian, White, White person - a member of the Caucasoid race
2.Kassite - an ancient language spoken by the Kassites
natural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
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(12) As Lambert points out, the reign of Nebuchadnezzar I fits these circumstances well, since this was a time of nationalistic revival coinciding with the return of Marduk's statue from Elam, when the city's fortunes had recovered after the collapse of the Kassite dynasty.
Revising her 2016 PhD dissertation at the University of Toronto, Boivin explores the period that has long been obscure in second-millennium Babylon between the well documented Amorite and Kassite periods.
The Aryans who had settled around Varanasi were known as Kassite city was flanked by the rivers Varna and Asia from which the place derives its name.Kasi was the most powerful kingdom of the sixteen Jana Padas before the rise of Buddhism.
The Tour Guide License Programme will cover the history of Qatar from the Al Ubaidi Period through the Bronze Age, Kassite Period, Greek and Roman influences, Sasonid Period, Islamic Period, Umayyad and Abbassid Period and Bani Khalid Time right up to British rule and recent contemporary history of Qatar.
Among the topics are foreigners under foreign rule in Kassite Babylonia during the second half of the second millennium BC, non-priestly and priestly legislation concerning strangers, resident aliens and natives in the holiness legislation, and Gentile Yhwh-worshipers and their participation in the cult of Israel.
and 800 B.C., respectively, while the bird-shaped clay whistle once displayed in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad, was made by a Babylonian craftsman in the Kassite period, around 1400 B.C.
Iranian culture, on the other hand, like Kassite culture in earlier times, had only limited impact on the western holdings of these dynasties.
Kassite conquerors terminated the Babylonian era at the turn of the second millennium BC and introduced a bronze age characterised by relative cultural stagnation.
During a state-sponsored surge of literary collection and invention in the Kassite period (c.1500) many widely scattered tablets from this epic were sorted and inventoried.