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====The Collapse of Bronze Age Babylon====

As the Bronze Age drew to a close in the late thirteenth century BC, Kassite Babylon faced enemies on multiple sides. Just to Babylon’s east was the Kingdom of Elam, which although not in the Great Powers club, became just as prominent in the Late Bronze Age into the early Iron Age. Knowing that the Elamites would be difficult to counter militarily, especially with the threat of the Assyrians in the north, the Kassite kings began marrying Elamite princesses in the early thirteen century BC. <ref> Potts, D.T. “Elamites and Kassites in the Persian Gulf.” <i>Journal of Near Eastern Studies</i> 65 (2006) p. 117</ref> The diplomatic marriages, though, were not enough to stop the covetous desires of the Elamites, or other groups of peoples.