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 Syri
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Around 1200 BCE
- Zhou dynasty (1046 BCE)
- Exodus from Egypt (1300 BCE)
- Moses (1391 BCE)
- Phoenician alphabet emerges (1050 BCE)
- Ramesses II (the Great) (1303 BCE)
- Zoroaster composes the Gathas (1100 BCE)
- Zoroaster (1200 BCE)
- Bronze Age collapse (1200 BCE)
- King David (1040 BCE)
- Construction of Solomon's Temple (957 BCE)