HIST 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sea Peoples, Mycenaean Greece, Philistines
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Within 50 years, almost every significant city was destroyed and were never occupied. Anatolian, mainland greece, egyptians, near east again. Took anatolia nearly 1000 years to recover from the destruction, all hittite sites were destroyed. At least 29 of the southern levant cities were completely destroyed and 9 in northern. Assyria and elam were two cities not completely destroyed at first. Assyria withdrawn their western civilizations and had a strong kingdom and weapons. Within about 100 years, both cities fell. All cities of mycenaean greece were destroyed and abandoned. Egypt was able to repel invaders twice. Collapsed after the second attack, became disunified for 400-500 years. Country is trapped and abandoned to itself. They are coming now and they bring death. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and massive drought and mini-ice age. The use of iron began to outweigh bronze weapons brought unrest to small tribes and villages. Period of dark ages lasted from 1200 to 700 bc.
