Kassiete: Verskil tussen weergawes

Hulle het beheer oor Babilon oorgeneem nadat die [[Hetiete]] die stad in 1595&nbsp;v.C. (of 1531&nbsp;v.C.) verwoes het en ’n dinastie gevestig, eers in Babilon en daarna in Dur-Kurigalzu.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/22897/Anatolia/44349/The-Old-Hittite-Kingdom |author= |title=The Old Hittite Kingdom |date= |work=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] Online |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. |access-date=8 September 2012 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150111051825/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/22897/Anatolia/44349/The-Old-Hittite-Kingdom |archive-date=11 Januarie 2015 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name=tkb>{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/376828/history-of-Mesopotamia/55446/The-Kassites-in-Babylonia |author= |title=The Kassites in Babylonia |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=8 September 2012 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112015731/http://www.britannica.com:80/EBchecked/topic/376828/history-of-Mesopotamia/55446/The-Kassites-in-Babylonia |archive-date=12 November 2014 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Die Kassiete was lede van ’n klein militêre aristokrasie, maar was doeltreffende heersers en plaaslik nie ongewild nie,<ref name=kassite>{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/313072/Kassite |author= |title=Kassite (people) |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=8 September 2012 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141010030320/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/313072/Kassite |archive-date=10 Oktober 2014 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}</ref> en hul bewind van sowat 500 jaar het ’n noodsaaklike fondament gelê vir die ontwikkeling van die daaropvolgende Babiloniese kultuur.<ref name=tkb/> Die strydwa en [[perd]], wat die Kassiete aanbid het, is in dié tyd vir die eerste keer in Babilonië gebruik.<ref name=kassite/>

Die Kassiete se taal is nog nie geklassifiseer nie.<ref name=tkb/> Wat bekend is, is dat dit nie verwant was aan óf die [[Indo-Europese tale|Indo-Europese]] óf die [[Semitiese tale|Semitiese]] óf ander [[Afro-Asiatiese tale]] nie en dit was moontlik ’n geïsoleerde taal. Sommige geleerdes stel egter ’n verband voor met die Horities-Urarteïese tale van [[Klein-Asië]].<ref>Schneider, Thomas (2003). "Kassitisch und Hurro-Urartäisch. Ein Diskussionsbeitrag zu möglichen lexikalischen Isoglossen". Altorientalische Forschungen (in German) (30): 372–381.</ref> Die aankoms van die Kassiete word egter verbind met die destydse migrasie van Indo-Europese volke.<ref name="Myres"/><ref name="MacHenry"/><ref name="Iranian art and architecture">{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/293553/Iranian-art-and-architecture/37848/Median-period |title=Iranian art and architecture |author= |date= |work=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. |access-date=8 September 2012 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009131309/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/293553/Iranian-art-and-architecture/37848/Median-period |archive-date=9 Oktober 2014 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}</ref> Verskeie Kassitiese leiers en [[Godheid|gode]] het Indo-Europese name gehad,<ref name="Myres"/><ref name="MacHenry"/><ref name="Piggot">{{cite book |last=Piggot |first=Stuart |date=1970 |title=Ancient Europe |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2HxlXCoQzfAC |location= |publisher=Transaction Publishers |page=81 |isbn=0202364186 }}</ref><ref name="India: Early Vedic period">{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/place/India/Early-Vedic-period#ref485125 |title=India: Early Vedic period |author= |date= |work=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. |access-date=8 Julie 2015 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200430100641/https://www.britannica.com/place/India/Early-Vedic-period |archive-date=30 April 2020 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}</ref> en dit is moontlik dat hulle oorheers is deur ’n Indo-Europese elite soos die [[Mitanni]], wat oor die Horities-Urarteïessprekende [[Horiete]] van Klein-Asië regeer het.<ref name="Myres">{{cite book |last=Myres |first=Sir John Lynton |date=1930 |title=Who Were the Greeks? |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DhyQ5nHMt3UC |location= |publisher=University of California Press |page=102 |isbn= }}</ref><ref name="MacHenry">{{cite book |last=MacHenry |first=Robert |date=1992 |title=The new encyclopaedia Britannica: in 32 vol. Macropaedia, India - Ireland, Volume 21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hHKiJGzJ5ewC |location= |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.|page=36 |isbn=0852295537 }}</ref>