The year was 1177 BC. The 8th year of Ramses III’s reign a group of people set up camp in Canaan and would use this as a launch point for their attacks. Coming in from the land and sea. They had no uniform. Each group wears different headdresses from feathered ones to skull caps. Some wore beards and kilts, others wore garments. Armed with everything from bronze swords to wooden spears, bows and arrows. They came on boats, wagons. Sometimes alone, other times with their families.According to Ramses’ inscription, no country was able to fend off this mass warring people. Resistance was futile. The Hittites, Mycenaeans, the Canaanites, the Cypriots fell one by one. If you survived, you fled the carnage, others tried to pick up what remained from the ruined the nation; others joined the invaders. Outside of Egypt, all the other powers that would make up the bronze age would disappear, if not immediately than within the next 50 to 100 years. It was the end of the civilization. But could they have been attributed for the destruction of the bronze age? And who were these people? Were they some sort of ancient crusades. Disciplined with a goal in mind? Were they a group of loosely assembled marauders, the Vikings of the ancient world? Perhaps refugees seeking new land? Perhaps a combination of all the above. On today’s episode on A conversation Before the World Ends, we will be looking at the collapse of the Late Bronze Age and the “Perfect storm” that brewed in 1177 BC: The Year civilization came to an end. Music:-"Darren Curtis - Temple of Endless Sands" is under a Creative Commons (cc-by) licenseMusic promoted by BreakingCopyright:
https://bit.ly/b-egyptianNotes:Eric H. Cline, "1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed" |
https://amzn.to/2ClWgpORobert Drews, "The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C." |
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