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After the Bronze Age Collapse

Tides of History

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The Palaces of Mycenaean Greece

Mycenaean Greece had been a village society with some social complexity prior to the palaces emergence around 1400 BC. The collapse swept away that superstructure, but it didn't fundamentally alter the nature of settlement and life for most of the people who survived. Assyria offers an illuminating contrast to what happened in the Aegean and Anatolia. There's no question that the real post-collapse and beginning of the Iron Age were simply much less international cosmopolitan.

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