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McEvedy suggests that Asia’s population may have numbered about 8 million by 5,000 BP, 31 million by 3,000 BP, and perhaps 114 million by the start of the Common Era (CE).
- Tim Dyson
- 2019
Timeline. c. 6200 BCE. First copper smelting in Anatolia . c. 1700 BCE. The Hittites invade the region of the Hatti and begin a systematic campaign against them. The great city of Hattusa is sacked and destroyed. c. 1380 BCE. First instances of iron working in the Hittite Empire . 1350 BCE - 1250 BCE.
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Agriculture had come early to Anatolia (that part of the modern country of Turkey which is called Asia Minor). By the 8th century BCE farming communities were well established in the region, and some of the earliest towns excavated by archaeologists were located here. Most notably, Catal Huyuk, dating to the 8th to late 7th millennia BCE, was a lar...
By this time, the Hittites and other Indo-European groups were well-established in Anatolia, as well as in other parts of the Middle East. By all evidence they had co-existed peacefully with pre-existing populations. Now, however, they seem to have taken control of the towns in or near where they lived, perhaps taking advantage of a new military te...
Phrygian tribes moved into western Asia Minor from Thrace, in Europe, and the “Sea Peoples”, a group of coastal peoples set in movement by events in Europe, raided Anatolia with such force that the Hittite empire collapsed. The Hittite domination of Anatolia and northern Syria was replaced by a multitude of small kingdoms and tribes, and those stat...
The material civilization of the Greek settlements on the coast of Asia Minor gradually increased in wealth and sophistication, and by the early 8th century they had become thriving city-states. The Ionian cities were in fact at the forefront of Greek civilization at this time: the first and greatest of Greek poets, Homer, lived and worked here, an...
Another kingdom that arose during the 8th century was that of Urartu, in eastern Anatolia. Originally centered on the shores of Lake Van, it expanded over a sizable territory to the north of Assyria. Its culture mixed Mesopotamian influences with home-grown features to make a unique civilization. Urartu soon represented a major threat to Assyria, a...
This power was the Persian empire, which had conquered the Medes. Croesus attacked the Persians, but was swiftly defeated by Cyrus the Great, king of the Persians. Sardis was captured, and all Anatolia was now in Persian hands. See map of Ancient Anatolia in 500 BCE The region came under the rule of powerful satraps, governors appointed by the Pers...
In 334–333 BCE the armies of Alexander the Great conquered Anatolia from the Persians. After Alexander’s death in 323 BCE, and the struggles between Alexander’s generals which followed, Anatolia came to be divided between two of the leading dynasties of the Hellenistic world, the Ptolemies and the Seleucids. The Seleucids gained the upper hand, but...
In 133 BCE, Attalus III of Pergamum, having no heirs and wishing to prevent civil war, bequeathed his kingdom to Rome. His kingdom then became the Roman province of Asia. Thousands of Roman and Italian merchants, tax collectors and administrators started descending on western Asia Minor. The growing Roman presence in this region provoked intense re...
Greek population of Asia Minor reached close to 2.000.000 and we can safely say that the approximately 1.200.000 immigrants that fled to Greece after the failure of the Greek military expedition into Asia Minor (Tsakalos, 2011), certainly proved a force that boosted development in the long run.
The population of Anatolia and Balkans including Greece was estimated at 10.7 million in 600 CE, whereas Asia Minor was probably around 8 million during the early part of Middle Ages (950 to 1348 CE). The estimated population for Asia Minor around 1204 CE was 6 million, including 3 million in Seljuk territory.
Feb 1, 2018 · Constantinople, in 1204 CE, had a population of around 300,000, dwarfing the 80,000 in Venice, western Europe's largest city at the time. But it was not only its size that impressed the Crusaders, its buildings, churches and palaces, the huge forums and gardens, and, above all, its riches struck awe in the western visitors.
- Mark Cartwright
In total the Greek population of Asia Minor reached close to 2.000.000 and we can safely say that the approximately 1.200.000 immigrants that fled to Greece after the failure of the Greek military expedition into Asia Minor (Tsakalos, 2011), certainly proved a force that boosted development in the long run.
