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Invasions, destruction and possible population movements during the collapse of the Bronze Age, beginning c. 1200 BC. The Late Bronze Age collapse was a time of widespread societal collapse during the 12th century BC associated with environmental change, mass migration, and the destruction of cities.
the events of 1200 BC, when the comfortable Bronze Age world was transformed by similar crises of war, climate change, and cultural catastrophe, there are some obvious lessons and warnings to be heeded.
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1200 to 1050 BC – Bronze Age collapse; 1200 BC – oldest Phoenician alphabet inscription engraved on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram; 1200 to 884 BC – Sea Peoples, conjectured groups of seafaring raiders, invaded Anatolia, Syria, Canaan, Cyprus, and Egypt; 1200 to 546 BC – Lydian Empire; 1200 to 732 BC – Aramaean Kingdom of Aram-Damascus
The collapse in Greece and the Aegean at the end of the Late Bronze Age c. 1200 bce has long been a mystery—in terms of what exactly happened, who was involved, their actions and motivations, and what the structural factors were.
The agenda of this, the 1200 BC conference is thus quite explicit. From the Atlantic coast of North-west Europe to the shores of the South-east Mediterranean, from Ireland and Scandinavia to Egypt, archaeologists increasingly recognise that the 1200 BC period is one of dramatic cultural disruption giving way to profound cultural transformation.
This process is visible primarily in town- development in central Europe, as well as in the flowering of commercial city- states in the Italian peninsula. Urban development in northern and Western Europe provided the financial backing for monarchs as well as feudal lords in the form of taxes and customs, and also provided new constituencies in ...
