The Bronze Age Collapse (In Our Time)

1,200 BCE · Resource

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Bronze Age Collapse, the name given by many historians to what appears to have been a sudden, uncontrolled destruction of dominant civilizations around 1200 BC in the Aegean, Eastern Mediterranean and Anatolia. Among other areas, there were great changes in Minoan Crete, Egypt, the Hittite Empire, Mycenaean Greece and Syria.

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Around 1200 BCE

• The Sack of Troy (1184 BCE)
• The death of Hector (1184 BCE)
• Zhou dynasty (1046 BCE)
• The Wooden Horse (1184 BCE)
• Exodus from Egypt (1300 BCE)
• The slaughter of the suitors (1175 BCE)
• The Fall of Troy (1184 BCE)
• The parting of the Red Sea (1446 BCE)
• Moses (1391 BCE)
• Phoenician alphabet emerges (1050 BCE)

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