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What was the Bronze Age Collapse?

Tides of History

CHAPTER

The History of Egypt

The series of calamities seems to begin with the first invasion of egypt by the sea peoples, dated to the year 12 o seven b c. These sea peoples comprise a list of ethnic names equesh, shekelesh, luca, chardana and teresh. Wherever they came from, mernepta saw them off in violent fashion. Things then really picked up after about 12 hundred b c. The misonean palaces seem to have been destroyed between then and about 11 80 b c. Troy too was destroyed right around 1180 b c. Ugarit was home to at least eight thousand people, and some time just after 11 90, b c, their

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