Bronze Age Collapse
Location 1:
Hattusha- Center of Modern Turkey
Gateways are decorated with tall carved sculptures of Lions
Capital of the Hittite Empire
Ruled a large portion of Turkey
A haunted place where most are scared to go to
Location 2:
Karagolan
Empire 1:
Hittites
Empire 2:
Ugarit
Great Trade City
Ruled a coastal kingdom o Merchants and Sailors
At least 7 languages
Diverse City
Oldest Writen Music in the World
Hammurabi was the last King- Land became abandoned
Burned down
Empire 3:
Minoans
Empire 4:
Mycenaens
How Bronze was made
10 tones of bronze
1 ton of tin
Needed everyone
Household objects, weapons, craftsmen tools, (etc..)
Tin was hard to find, Coper was easier
Sea Peoples
Wherever the Sea peoples went, destruction followed.
Compared to the Vikings
Conquered and burned down many cities
Some wear Skull caps and others wear horned helmets
Many different armies sailing under one banner
Helped the Egyptians before the Great collapse
Wanted to attack the Egyptian most precious river, the Nile river
Similarities from all of the Civilizations
In 40-50 years almost every city in the eastern Medierranean World was destroyed
Many Cities traded
Biggest trading route was in the Mediterranean sea
All Cities that did Collapsed
Myceane
Hittites
Ugarit
Kassite Dynasty of Babylon
What a Ship carried to trade
Ten tons of Coper, elephant and hippo Tongues, Arrow head, turtles, gold, pottery, blocks of raw colored glass, almonds, dates, pistachio (etc...)
When people were at distress no letters were sent that needed to be sent
Most cities were burned down and show ruins of arrow heads
Greek Dark Ages
Mycenae
Military Stong hold
Major center of Greek Civilisation
Cyclopse
Only people who could have had the strength to move the heavy and big boulders moves to make the wall.
Ten year war lead by King Agamemnon
ruins of troy in modern turkey
Coastal outpoint to the Hittite Empire
Related to Homer
Troy was attacked and had to defend itself many times
The end of the 1200 BS and late Bronze Age Collapse
Comparision
Bronze
the importance of tin in the late bronze age is pretty close for us with crude oil today.
All Cities that didnt collapse
Egypt
Ramses was the Ruler of Egypt during this time
Named himself after one of the greatest and longest rulers, Ramses the Great
Ambushed the sea people