The Kassite Dynasty of Babylon

Those damn Elamites. Always at it! Can't get a rest these days!

I love how the Kassite names have a very alien sound to them, but in a totally different way than the Assyrian names, or Babylonian names.

Whats funny is that if you did a short vid about where that statue of Marduk traveled, it would be amazing. Marduk definitely got to know the 4 winds, and the many waters of Mesopotamia, and its neighbors.

It’s been theorized that these guys were early Indo Europeans like the Hittites (the Mitanni are also theorized to be early Indo European rulers over a majority foreign language speaking people)

Thanks, I love this series. I wish I had been taught more about Bronze Age Civilizations in high school.

Great topic - I especially like learning about the Kassites, because I've been to the crumbling ziggurat at Agar Quf (Dur-Kurigalzu)... in fact I was involved in a firefight in the shadow of the structure.

From Mesopotamia they moved to Caspian and from Caspian they moved to kashmir(now conflicts land of India and Pakistan). In kasmir they have a great discovery a rice nowadays called marcy rice in Nepal which grows in cold and high altitude and extremely nutrients then normal rice. When population start to grow the land is not enough for food so they started to move Eastern parts of himalayas and went karnali (western part of nepal) and established a very powerful civilization and empire. The empire was from Afghanistan to central nepal. The empire was exist around 1100 ad. The big population of khas(kaaaites) lived in Nepal. You can search khas culture of karnali nepal in YouTube. Khas are warriors community who were first people to play war with horse. They invade babylonia in around 1800 bc. I am also from khas community.

idk if anyone else does this but when im studying about ancient history i sometimes root for specific factions, sorta making them the 'protagonists' in the story of history

If you watch Olie bye's video on ancient Mesopotamia you will see how long the Kassites ruled Babylon. I was suprised at how long they did.

Great episode, Kassites are really an enigma i think they were early indo european peoples simillar to Hittites and Mittani.

From being a people almost noone heard of you give them their right place in our (very simplified) history books. Really interesting and well presented video! Thanks a lot!

''Dark age'' does not mean ''stagnation/lack of innovation''. ''Dark Age'' refers to ''Lack of information about that time period. As stated by yourself, during the Mesopotamian ''Dark age'' the regions still flourished under the Kassites. The exact same applies to the Medieval ''Dark Age''.

Perfect and thank you for great illustration.

Keep up the great work dude and please do more on ancient Greece

Very enjoyable and educational episode. I would love if that statue of Marduk still existed.

The Kassites may be a branch of semi nomadic Kas tribe that wandered from Kosovo (or even west) to Nepal . There are many places like Kashi (India) , Kasi (China) , Khasan(Nepal), Kashmir , HinduKush , Kazakhastan , Caspian Sea , Caucasus Mountain , Khazaria and Upto Kosovo . And remember that Kashmir was part of Dardistan or Balkh region and Kosovo was part of Dardania or Balkan region . The names are pre Islamic . I am a Nepalese Khas .The name Nepal(Kathmandu City) and Napoli don't only sound similar but have same meaning too (New City) . Kathmandu , although getting destroyed by major earthquake once every 70-80 years still has far higher density of heritage structures that can easily surpass most of European cities which is very uncommon in South Asia. Nepalese Khukuri and Greek Kopis are similar . We say Tuppo to Tip ,Poko to Packet , Falam for Iron( Ferrum in Latin) , Jamara to Germinated seedling , Aran to working place of metalsmiths(Iron came from same word) , Joon to Moon ( Junius and Lunius both are same) , Khola to tiny river (Qala in Maltese) , Damaha to Drum and so many words that are not found in Sanskrit or Indic languages (except Himalayan) . Many of our festivals are similar to Iranian festivals of Navroz and even Halloween that is not found in Gangetic planes of India . This video made me more proud of our history . Kassites are not but Khas people that are semi nomadic that live from SouthEastern Europe to Nepal .

Kassites introduced horse and chariot to the area, and their leaders and gods had Indo-European names. They were likely a ruling elite who ruled over people with a different language groups. For sure they were Indo-Iranian.

Kassites, Gutians, Cyrtians, Hurrians and Medes are the ancestors of modern Kurdish people. This explains why the much of the Kurdish dna is traced back to the Zagros mountains or what do you think?

Kara-Indash using ancient (to him) Sumerian for this official proclamation reminds me of Medieval Western Europe's adapting/adopting Latin for official formalities of all sorts.

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