The Hittite empire also had been broken up, and henceforth we hear only of "the kings of the Hittites" who ruled over a number of small states.

The Semites of Syria had succeeded in rolling back the wave of Hittite conquest, and in absorbing their Hittite conquerors.

The capture of Carchemish by Sargon of Assyria in B.C.717 marks the end of Hittite dominion south of the Taurus.
But the Hittite invasion had produced lasting results.

It had severed the Semites of Assyria and Babylonia from those of the West, and planted the barrier of a foreign population on the highroad that ran from Nineveh to the Mediterranean.

The tradition of Babylonian culture in western Asia was broken; new influences began to work there, and the cuneiform system of writing to be disused.