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What if Hittites Conquer Mesopotamia?

The Hittites put less emphasis on Syria and instead try to occupy Babylon long term. Implications?

He then led an unprecedented march of 2000 km south into the heart of Mesopotamia, where in 1531 BC he sacked the city of Babylon. Mursili's motivation for attacking Babylon remain unclear, though William Broad has proposed that the reason were obtaining grain because the clouds from the Thera eruption decreased the Hittites' harvests.[6]

The raid on Babylon brought an end to the Amorite dynasty of Hammurabi but did not result in Hittite control over Babylonia, but allowed the Kassites to take power.
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