Advanced civilizations with extensive trade networks and complex sociopolitical institutions characterized the Late Bronze Age (c.1550–1200 BC). Prominent societies (Egyptians, … See more

Robert Drews described the collapse as "arguably the worst disaster in ancient history, even more calamitous than the collapse of the … See more

Anatolia
Many Anatolian sites were destroyed at the Late Bronze Age, and the area appears to have undergone extreme political decentralization. For much of the Late Bronze Age, Anatolia had been dominated by the See more

• Bachhuber, Christoph R. and Gareth Roberts, 2009. Forces of Transformation : The End of the Bronze Age in the Mediterranean : … See more

The reason that the arbitrary date 1200 BC acts as the beginning of the end of the Late Bronze Age derives from one German historian, Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren. In one of his histories on ancient Greece from 1817, Heeren stated that the first period of … See more

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• Greek Dark Ages – period following the Late Bronze Age collapse
• Iron Age Cold Epoch
• Middle Bronze Age migrations (ancient Near East) See more

• Cline, Eric H. (2014). 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-14089-6.
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