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Bronze Age Collapse & Sea Peoples
1200–1150 BC
Eastern Mediterranean
Status: ended
Casualties: Unknown — civilisations erased
Within fifty years every major palace society of the eastern Mediterranean was sacked or abandoned — Hattusa, Ugarit, Mycenae, Knossos. Only Egypt under Ramesses III repelled the Sea Peoples at the Battle of the Delta (1175 BC). Literacy was lost in Greece for four centuries.
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Belligerents
- Sea Peoples coalition
- Hittites
- Egypt (Ramesses III)
- Mycenae
- Ugarit
Casualties
Unknown — civilisations erased
From World at War, an interactive atlas by Jairus Pereira.
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