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Hammurabi’s conquest of his neighbors put an end to the dynasties in Larsa, Eshnunna, and Mari, <ref> Mieroop, Marc van de. <i>A History of the Ancient Near East: ca. 2000-323 BC. Second Edition.</i> (London: Blackwell, 2007), p. 111</ref> which threw the entire system into political turmoil. Despite Hammurabi indeed did cause plenty of turmoil for the instability Hammurabi causedstates in Mesopotamia, it was his wars of conquest were not the end of the system.

Despite surviving the Babylonian onslaught, Yamhad and Qatna were not spared the extreme political transition that was taking place in the period. Yamhad was destroyed by the Hittites in 1595 BC, <ref> Macqueen, Jack M. <i>The Hittites and Their Contemporaries in Asia Minor.</i> (London: Thames and Hudson, 2003), p. 44</ref> and although Qatna survived into the Late Bronze Age, it became a virtual buffer state between the Late Bronze Age powers of Egypt, Mitanni, and Hatti. <ref> Pitard, p. 43</ref>