The half century between c. 1200 BC and 1150 BC saw the cultural collapse of the Mycenaean kingdoms, the Kassites in
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Gradually, by the end of the ensuing Dark Age, remnants of the Hittites coalesced into small Syro-Hittite states in Cilicia and in the Levant, where the new states were composed of mixed Hittite and Aramean polities. Be… See more

Before the Bronze Age collapse, Anatolia (Asia Minor) was dominated by a number of peoples of varying ethno-linguistic origins, including: Semitic-speaking Assyrians and Amorites, Hurro-Urartian-speaking Hurrians, Kaskians… See more

Various theories have been put forward as possible contributors to the collapse, many of them mutually compatible.
Some Egyptologists have dated the Hekla 3 volcanic eruption in Iceland to 1159 BC and blamed it fo… 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.
• Drews, Robert (1993). The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastroph… See more