<sod>The Kaska contributed to the fall of the Hittite empire in the [[Bronze Age collapse]], c. 1200 BC{{fact}}}. Then they penetrated eastern Anatolia, and continued their thrust southwards, where they encountered the [[Assyria]]ns. The [[Assyria]]n king [[Tiglath-Pileser I]] recorded late in the 12th century BC that the Kaska and their [[Mushki]] allies were active in what had been the Hatti heartland. Tiglath-Pileser defeated them, and the Kaska then disappear from all historical records.{{fact}}<eod>
<sod>The Kaska contributed to the fall of the Hittite empire in the [[Bronze Age collapse]], c. 1200 BC{{fact|date=April 2016}}}. Then they penetrated eastern Anatolia, and continued their thrust southwards, where they encountered the [[Assyria]]ns. The [[Assyria]]n king [[Tiglath-Pileser I]] recorded late in the 12th century BC that the Kaska and their [[Mushki]] allies were active in what had been the Hatti heartland. Tiglath-Pileser defeated them, and the Kaska then disappear from all historical records.{{fact|date=April 2016}}<eod>