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  2. Late Bronze Age collapse - Wikipedia

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    The Late Bronze Age collapse was a period of societal collapse in the Mediterranean basin during the 12th century BC. It is thought to have affected much of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East , in particular Egypt , Anatolia , the Aegean , eastern Libya , and the Balkans .

  3. Akrotiri (prehistoric city) - Wikipedia

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    Taken on 16 May 2001, 4 years before the 23 September 2005 roof collapse. [1] Layout map of Akrotiri in the Bronze Age. Pumice, here: northern shelving coast. Eruption of 165 ka buried it all. Akrotiri (Greek: Ακρωτήρι, pronounced Greek:) is the site of a Cycladic Bronze Age settlement on the volcanic Greek island of Santorini (Thera).

  4. Tollense valley battlefield - Wikipedia

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    Initially, alternative explanations were considered, in part because "[b]efore Tollense, direct evidence of large-scale violence in the Bronze Age was scanty, especially in this region". [4] However, the location in a swamp and the lack of any ornaments or pottery made a cemetery unlikely, as local preference at the time was for dry ground burials.

  5. File:Bronze-age-collapse.svg - Wikipedia

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    different colour map to support the colour-blind: 15:44, 2 May 2017: 1,162 × 888 (206 KB) ... Late Bronze Age collapse; Usage on eu.wikipedia.org Greziako Aro Iluna;

  6. Mycenae - Wikipedia

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    Mycenae was among the numerous Aegean sites destroyed as part of the Bronze Age Collapse around 1200 BC. The causes of these destructions are unknown, but proposed explanations include enemy attack, internal strife, and natural disasters such as earthquakes.

  7. List of Bronze Age states - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Bronze Age polities. By the end of the Bronze Age, complex state societies were mostly limited to the Fertile Crescent and to China, while Bronze Age tribal chiefdoms with less complex forms of administration were found throughout Bronze Age Europe and Central Asia, in the northern Indian subcontinent, and in parts of ...

  8. Alashiya - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Ancient Near East around 1400 BC. Alashiya (Akkadian: 𒀀𒆷𒅆𒅀 Alašiya [a-la-ši-ia]; Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎍𐎘𐎊 ẢLṮY; Linear B: 𐀀𐀨𐀯𐀍 Alasios [a-ra-si-jo]; Hieratic "'irs3"), also spelled Alasiya, also known as the Kingdom of Alashiya, [1] was a state which existed in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, and was situated somewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean.

  9. Sea Peoples - Wikipedia

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    The Sea Peoples were a group of tribes hypothesized to have attacked Egypt and other Eastern Mediterranean regions around 1200 BC during the Late Bronze Age. [2] The hypothesis was first proposed by the 19th century Egyptologists Emmanuel de Rougé and Gaston Maspero , on the basis of primary sources such as the reliefs on the Mortuary Temple ...