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This may mean that the Kassites were not interested in shaping the intellectual or cultural expression of the land they ruled and did not actively seek to influence it; that they left such matters to the indigenous literary elite. There is also the possibility that they chose to leave their mark by other means, by maintaining a tight grip on actual power in order to reshape the country in more profound ways without having to invent new forms of legitimisation. The most important change from the Old Babylonian period was the transition from political fragmentation to a national monarchy who ruled over a territory with clear borders.
According to some year names, various successors of Hammurabi were obliged to campaign against these people whom they called Kassites but by the seventeenth century they appear firmly ensconced in the southern Jezirah up to the middle Euphrates region. However, it was not the Kassites who brought the First Dynasty of Babylon and the Old Babylonian period to a sudden end. It came from an unexpected part of the world, from Anatolia, where the Hittites, an Indo-European people, had made a swift and steady rise to form a powerful state.
However long the actual break lasted, the Old Babylonian age more or less gradually came to an end by the middle of the second millennium. T H E M I D D L E B A B Y L O N I AN PER I OD (c. 1500–612) The Kassites, who called themselves galzu (Akkadian kasˇsˇu),rrived in Mesopotamia from the east. It is not known where their ancestral homeland was and which route they took to reach Mesopotamia. Their familiarity with horses may give a clue that they came from the Eurasian steppe lands, but that could also have been acquired en route.