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Their social organisation consisted of the two classes; the freemen and the slaves."
Hurrians
The Hurrians infiltered into North Mesopotamia about 2300 B. C. though their political success is marked Circa 2000 B. C. They established the State of Mittani Circa 1500 B. C. They had hereditary monarchy surrounded by a restricted noble class controlling the means of warfare and sharing out the land in feudal type. They also longed for male progeny, not the female, like their other Aryan brothers. The Hittite, Hurrian treaty between the Hittite King Suppiluliumas and the Hurrian king Mattiwaza, son of Tusharatta in 1365 B. C. display Aryan names such as Indra, Varuna, Mitra and Nasatyas along with Ishtar. The very culture which possesses such a great expansive force is also highly receptive to foreign influences. The Hittite works drew their inspirations from Hurrian sources."
The Amorite Samsu-iluma was ingloriously defeated by the Kassites who established themselves as the sole rulers and heirs of the Babylonian empire. Kassites They were good fighting men. But they soon
succumbed to the riches of the soil and became luxurious people. The Kassite King, Kuri-galzu II who reigned about 1400 B. C. was an impassioned builder. He erected many monnments at Ur and other southern cities. The Kassite barbarians were very unclutured people who learned civilization from their conquered subjects. The tenacity of power by them for so many centuries points to a health and vigour in the Kassite rulers. They adopted the religion, art and culture of their adversaries."
Egypt had become a weaker state during the reigns of the fourteenth and fifteenth dynasties of the Second Inter
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