Re: THEORY : Asianic?

Quoting Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>:

> "Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> >         I do not know the genetic affiliation of Kassite.
>
> Who are the Kassites?  It looks uncomfortably similar to my Kassi.
> :-)
They were a people who, in the middle of the 2nd millennium BC, conquered
Babylonia and set up a dynasty there that lasted ca 1600-1150 BC. They were
culturally assimilated by their subjects, like so many later barbarian
conquerers were to become.

                                                     Andreas