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Kassite

American  
[kas-ahyt] / ˈkæs aɪt /
Or Cassite

noun

  1. a member of an ancient people related to the Elamites, who ruled Babylonia from c1650 to c1100 b.c.


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Like the Guti and the Amorites before them, over time, the Kassite rulers adopted the culture of their Mesopotamian subjects.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Was I molded and cast by a Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Kassite, Hurrian, Hyksos, Elamite, or by some barbaric genius of the Caucasus?

From Time Magazine Archive

In an inscription of the Kassite conqueror Gaddas the name appears as Ba-ba-lam, as if from the Assyrian babalu, "to bring"; another foreign Volksetymologie is found in Genesis xi.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

It was probably a centre of discontent during the whole period of Kassite ascendancy.

From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander

Babylonia was called Karduniash during the Kassite Dynasty.

From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander