HISA07H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Heroon, Old Testament, Conspicuous Consumption
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13th century: signs of trouble appearing, walls strengthen and underground water sources in. Mycenae: fire and destruction destroys many cities, egypt and the pharaoh rameses iii survive, claims of defeating the sea peoples . 1177 bc: the sea peoples may be refuges in search of safety from the real enemy, famine and drought caused people to rebel and move, the interconnected powers began to fall apart. 12th to 11th century (early iron age/ dark age: smaller city states, more independent, lack of connections. Egypt (12th century: end of new kingdom 20th dynasty, rameses iii dies and egypt declines, 1060 bc lost the east and south empire. 3rd intermediate period (11th 7th c: nubian kushite leader and his successors unites egypt by using egyptian culture (piankhi, his son makes himself a sphinx (podcast) 7th c bc last kushite pharaoh tararquo tries to expand and gets pushed back, returns to nubia.
