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Ann Killebrew has shown that cities such as Jerusalem were significant and important walled settlements in the West Asian Middle Bronze IIB and Iron Age IIC periods (c. 1800–1550 and c. 720–586 BC), but that during the intervening Late Bronze (LB) and Iron Age I and IIA/B Ages, sites like Jerusalem were small, relatively insignificant, and ...
Kingdom city state 2000–1650 BC Qatna: Qatna City-State 2000–1340 BC Sea Peoples: Not specified Tribal confederacy 1575–1175 BC Sumer: Various Kingdom city states 4500–1900 BC Troas: Troy Kingdom 2000–700 BC Ugarit: Ugarit Kingdom city state 2500–1090 BC Ur: Ur city state 3800–800 BC Urkesh: Urkesh Kingdom city state/client 2250 ...
The book focuses on Cline's hypothesis for the Late Bronze Age collapse of civilization, a transition period that affected the Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, Cypriots, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Assyrians and Babylonians; varied heterogeneous cultures populating eight powerful and flourishing states intermingling via trade, commerce, exchange and "cultural piggybacking," despite "all the ...
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1180 BC: collapse of Hittite power in Anatolia with the destruction of their capital Hattusa. c. 1177 BC: Ramesses III of Egypt repels attacks by northern invaders (the "Sea-Peoples") in the 8th year of his reign (1177 or 1186 BC); an event which Eric Cline closely relates to the beginning of the Late Bronze Age collapse. [2]
The Atlantic Bronze Age as cultural geographic region is a cultural complex (c. 2100 – c. / 800 / 700 cal. BC) that includes different cultures in the context of the Atlantic Iberian Peninsula (Portugal, Andalucía, Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, País Vasco, Navarra and Castilla and León), the Atlantic France, Britain and Ireland, while the ...
It is Monday, Oct. 3, and we are now in the post-Ian era of Florida history. Thirty years ago, Hurricane Andrew and its Category 5 wind field irrevocably changed the face of South Florida, left a ...
Troy VIIa was the final layer of the Late Bronze Age city. It was built soon after the destruction of Troy VI, seemingly by its previous inhabitants. The builders reused many of the earlier city's surviving structures, notably its citadel wall, which they renovated with additional stone towers and mudbrick breastworks.