Bronze Age - bracchiumforte.com
... -some sites were destroyed, reoccupied and attacked again; others were destroyed and never reoccupied (e.g. Pylos) -all sites, except Athens, were all ultimately destroyed -this devastation was not limited to Greece: -Hittite Empire collapsed just after 1200 BC due to famine, unrest and rebellion -T ...
... -some sites were destroyed, reoccupied and attacked again; others were destroyed and never reoccupied (e.g. Pylos) -all sites, except Athens, were all ultimately destroyed -this devastation was not limited to Greece: -Hittite Empire collapsed just after 1200 BC due to famine, unrest and rebellion -T ...
Vocabulary for the Near East 1800
... Diaspora: the dispersion of Jews/Hebrews after the Babylonian Captivity Phoenician: group of Semitic people who lived in the Syrian area north of Israel. They began around 1500 BC and were largely over-run by other civilizations (Assyria, Neo-Babylon, Aramaeans) so they focused on colonizing in the ...
... Diaspora: the dispersion of Jews/Hebrews after the Babylonian Captivity Phoenician: group of Semitic people who lived in the Syrian area north of Israel. They began around 1500 BC and were largely over-run by other civilizations (Assyria, Neo-Babylon, Aramaeans) so they focused on colonizing in the ...
Late Bronze Age collapse
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The Late Bronze Age collapse was a transition in the Aegean Region, Southwestern Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age that historians believe was violent, sudden and culturally disruptive. The palace economy of the Aegean Region and Anatolia which characterised the Late Bronze Age was replaced, after a hiatus, by the isolated village cultures of the Greek Dark Ages.Between 1206 and 1150 BC, the cultural collapse of the Mycenaean kingdoms, the Hittite Empire in Anatolia and Syria, and the New Kingdom of Egypt in Syria and Canaan interrupted trade routes and severely reduced literacy. In the first phase of this period, almost every city between Pylos and Gaza was violently destroyed, and often left unoccupied thereafter: examples include Hattusa, Mycenae, and Ugarit. Drews writes ""Within a period of forty to fifty years at the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the twelfth century almost every significant city in the eastern Mediterranean world was destroyed, many of them never to be occupied again"" (p. 4).The gradual end of the Dark Age that ensued saw the eventual rise of settled Syro-Hittite states in Cilicia and Syria, Aramaean kingdoms of the mid-10th century BC in the Levant, the eventual rise of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and after the Orientalising period of the Aegean, Classical Greece.