Kassite Dynasty

Examples of Kassite Dynasty in the following topics:

• Nebuchadnezzar and the Fall of Babylon

  • The Kassite Dynasty ruled Babylonia following the fall of Hammurabi and was succeeded by the Second Dynasty of Isin, during which time the Babylonians experienced military success and cultural upheavals under Nebuchadnezzar.
  • The Fall of the Kassite Dynasty and the Rise of the Second Dynasty of Isin
  • Following the collapse of the First Babylonian Dynasty under Hammurabi, the Babylonian Empire entered a period of relatively weakened rule under the Kassites for 576 years— the longest dynasty in Babylonian history.
  • The Kassite Dynasty eventually fell due to the loss of territory and military weakness, which resulted in the evident reduction in literacy and culture.
  • The new king successfully drove out the Elamites and prevented any possible Kassite revival.

• Ur

  • After the fall of this empire, Ur was ruled by the barbarian Gutians, until King Ur-Nammu came to power, circa 2047 - 2030 BCE (the Third Dynasty of Ur).
  • It was ruled by the first dynasty of Babylonia, then part of the Sealand Dynasty, then by the Kassites before falling to the Assyrian Empire from the 10th-7th century BE.
  • After the 7th century BCE, it was ruled by the Chaldean Dynasty of Babylon.

• Babylon

  • Following the disintegration of the Akkadian Empire, the Sumerians rose up with the Third Dynasty of Ur in the late 22nd century BCE, and ejected the barbarian Gutians from southern Mesopotamia.
  • The Sumerian "Ur-III" dynasty eventually collapsed at the hands of the Elamites, another Semitic people, in 2002 BCE.
  • One of these Amorite dynasties founded the city-state of Babylon circa 1894 BCE, which would ultimately take over the others and form the short-lived first Babylonian empire, also called the Old Babylonian Period.
  • The armies of Babylonia under Hammurabi were well-disciplined, and he was able to invade modern-day Iran to the east and conquer the pre-Iranic Elamites, Gutians and Kassites.
  • Amorite rule survived in a much-reduced Babylon, Samshu-iluna's successor, Abi-Eshuh, made a vain attempt to recapture the Sealand Dynasty for Babylon, but met defeat at the hands of king Damqi-ilishu II.

• The Assyrians

  • Following the fall of the Akkadian Empire, c. 2154 BCE, and the short-lived succeeding Sumerian Third Dynasty of Ur, which ruled southern Assyria, Assyria regained full independence.
  • It overthrew the Twenty-Fifth dynasty of Egypt, and conquered a number of other notable civilizations, including Babylonia, Elam, Media, Persia, Phoenicia/Canaan, Aramea (Syria), Arabia, Israel, and the Neo-Hittites.
  • This map shows the extent of the empires of Egypt (orange), Hatti (blue), the Kassite kingdom of Babylon (black), Assyria (yellow), and Mitanni (brown).

• The Qing Dynasty

• Introduction to the Shang Dynasty

  • The Shang Dynasty (also called the Yin Dynasty) succeeded the Xia Dynasty, and was followed by the Zhou Dynasty.
  • Jie, the last king of the Xia Dynasty (the first Chinese dynasty), was overthrown c. 1760 BCE by Cheng Tang.
  • While scholars still debate whether the Xia Dynasty actually existed, there is little doubt  that the Shang Dynasty existed.
  • The Shang Dynasty is, therefore, generally considered China's first historical dynasty.
  • The Shang Dynasty is the oldest Chinese dynasty supported by archaeological finds.

• The Second Intermediate Period

  • The Second Intermediate Period (c. 1650-1550 BCE) spanned the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Dynasties, and was a period in which decentralized rule split Egypt between the Theban-based Seventeenth Dynasty in Upper Egypt and the Sixteenth Dynasty under the Hyksos in the north.
  • The capital of this dynasty was likely Avaris.
  • They would also conquer the Sixteenth Dynasty in Thebes and a local dynasty in Abydos (see below).
  • The Abydos Dynasty was a short-lived local dynasty that ruled over part of Upper Egypt and was contemporaneous with the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Dynasties c. 1650-1600 BCE.
  • Thebes was the capital of many of the Sixteenth Dynasty pharaohs.

• The Qing Dynasty and the West

• The Xia Dynasty

  • After the final ruler became corrupt, he was overthrown by Cheng Tang, who founded the Shang Dynasty.
  • According to this history, the last of the great Five Emperors, Emperor Shun, left his throne to Yu the Great, who founded China's First Dynasty, the Xia Dynasty.
  • This led to his overthrow in c. 1760 BCE by Cheng Tang, who founded a new dynasty, the Shang Dynasty, in the Huang River Valley.
  • Many argue that the Zhou Dynasty, which ruled China much later, invented the idea of the Xia Dynasty to support their claim that China could only be, and had always been, ruled by one ruler.
  • This hanging scroll shows Yu the Great, as imagined by Song Dynasty painter Ma Lin.

• Rise of the Tang Dynasty

  • The Tang dynasty (Chinese: 唐朝) was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
  • Decline of the Sui Dynasty and the Founding of the Tang
  • The Sui dynasty was a short-lived imperial dynasty of pivotal significance.
  • The Sui dynasty was succeeded by the Tang dynasty, which largely inherited its foundation.
  • Wu's rule was actually a short break in the Tang dynasty, as she established the short-lived Zhou dynasty; the Tang dynasty was restored after her rule.