Records from the 12th and 11th centuries BC are sparse, but Assyria and Babylon remained important, Assyria in particular remained a compact and strong nation which continued to provide much written record.
Records from the 12th and 11th centuries BC are sparse in Babylonia, which had been overrun with new Semitic settlers, namely the Arameans, Chaldeans and Sutu. Assyria however, remained a compact and strong nation, which continued to provide much written record.