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Significant people. 1270s BC. The 1270s BC is a decade which lasted from 1279 BC to 1270 BC. Statue of Ramesses II ( 19th Dynasty) Events and trends. 1279 BC —Pharaoh Seti I dies after an 11-year reign. c. 1279 BC— Troy VI, speculated to be the city mentioned in Homer 's Iliad, is presumed to have been destroyed by Greek armies.
7000 B.C. A great earthquake destroys the city of Jericho. 6,500 B.C. The oceans and sea’s rise, England is now cut off from Europe by land. 6000 B.C.. First beer is brewed from grain in the Near East. 5,500 B.C. First settled societies in the Mesopotamia region. 4,500 B.C. Humans learn how to use the plow.
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- A 'Globalized' Ancient World
- Invasion of The 'Sea Peoples'
- 'Megadrought' and 'Earthquake Storms'
- After The Collapse: Knowledge Lost
Not unlike today, a truly "globalized" economy once existed in the Late Bronze Age in which multiple ancient civilizations depended on each other for raw materials—especially copper and tin to produce bronze—and also trade goods made from ceramic, ivory and gold. "We're talking about a region that today would stretch from Italy in the West to Afgha...
The traditional explanation for the sudden collapse of these powerful and interdependent civilizations was the arrival, at the turn of the 12th century B.C., of marauding invaders known collectively as the "Sea Peoples," a term first coined by the 19th-century Egyptologist Emmanuel de Rougé. At Ugarit, a major port city in Canaan, the king wrote of...
In 2014, researchers from Israel and Germany analyzed core samples taken from the Sea of Galilee and determined, using radiocarbon dating, that the period from 1250 to 1100 B.C. was the driest of the entire Bronze Age, what some scholars call a “megadrought.” “This was a huge drought event,” says Cline. “It looks like it lasted at least 150 years a...
Ironically, the interconnectedness that had strengthened these Bronze Age kingdoms may have hastened their downfall. Once trade routes for tin and copper were disrupted and cities began to fall, Cline says it had a domino effect that resulted in a widespread “system collapse.” Among the casualties of the Late Bronze Age collapse was large-scale mon...
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Events. 1270. Africa. The Eighth Crusade. Before August – King Louis IX of France launches the Eighth Crusade, in an attempt to recapture the Crusader States from the Mamluk sultan Baibars; the opening engagement is a siege of Tunis. [1]
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.
Nov 14, 2015 · Over the past couple of decades, the main explanation has shifted to climate—a profound drought and cold snap that hit in the 1270s. But a series of studies by Glowacki, Varian...
Home. Events by Year. 1270. Highlights. Events. Birthdays. Deaths. Oct 30 The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis ended by agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
