And then eventually another group, the Kassites, take over this region. And you can see them in gray right over here. Now what's also interesting in this timeline that we have, and we're talking about hundreds of years, it's important to keep things in perspective, is that you see that a lot of these civilizations in the Middle East and Mesopotamia, this area is often referred to as the Levant. It's related to the word levante from Italian for to rise. Because for the Romans, for the Europeans, for those in the West, this is where the sun rose. This was the east. It was the eastern Mediterranean.