 The end of the kingdom was part of the larger Bronze Age Collapse.By 1160 BCE, the political situation in Asia Minor looked vastly different from that of only 25 years earlier.In that year, the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser I was defeating the "Mushki" (Phrygians) who had been attempting to press into Assyrian colonies in southern Anatolia from the Anatolian highlands, and the Kaska people, the Hittites' old enemies from the northern hill-country between Hatti and the Black Sea, seem to have joined them soon after.