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1177 BC, the Year a Perfect Storm Destroyed Civilization
Haaretz ^
| 4/13/2015
| Julis Fridman
Posted on 05/16/2021 11:10:33 AM PDT by LuciusDomitiusAutelian
The Late Bronze Age collapse of societies throughout the Levant, the Near East and the Mediterranean some 3,200 years ago has been a mystery. Powerful, advanced civilizations disappeared, seemingly overnight. Now an archaeologist believes he has figured out what lay behind the cataclysm.
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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Education; History
KEYWORDS: 1177bc; civilization; collapse; didyousearch; history
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One of the greatest mysteries of history. There are literally thousands of theories as to what caused the collapse. From floods, droughts, "sea peoples", to aliens. I don't ascribe to this person's theory, but it is s a good segway into discussions. All we know for sure is the only major civilization to survive this collapse was Egypt, and they never regained their power again and would be under Alexander the Great in several hundred years.
To: LuciusDomitiusAutelian
I read about the ‘sea people’ when I was 12 years old. (It was long ago in MY reading career)
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posted on
05/16/2021 11:17:12 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
( "Force always attracts men of low morality. " Albert Einstein)
To: LuciusDomitiusAutelian
Deuteronomy 7 predicted this. Is that relevant?
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posted on
05/16/2021 11:20:19 AM PDT
by
Fungi
To: LuciusDomitiusAutelian
Looks like it boils down to another climate change event due to ancient SUV chariots. ๐๐
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posted on
05/16/2021 11:21:10 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
To: LuciusDomitiusAutelian
Seven years of famine about which Joseph informed the Pharoah? And, Joseph, said, all of the peoples of the earth would come looking for food in Egypt. More than likely, this period is exactly when Joseph interpreted Pharoah’s dream.
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posted on
05/16/2021 11:22:13 AM PDT
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: SMARTY
A people who had mastered superior ship-building and sailing technology would be a threat to all coastal civilizations, much like the Vikings and Muslim corsairs of North Africa strongly contributed to the Dark Ages about two thousand years later.
A large force, arriving from the sea without warning, can loot and pillage an area, and disappear over the horizon before any response can be mounted.
Make ocean trade unsafe, and things collapse.
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posted on
05/16/2021 11:24:33 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
To: Fungi
“Is this relevant”
It is all relevant, some more plausible more than others. Here to hear people’s opinions. Not to judge.
To: SMARTY
So did I.
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posted on
05/16/2021 11:28:04 AM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Caveat Emperor: Comitii asinorum atque rhinocerorum delendi sunt.)
To: LuciusDomitiusAutelian
In fact some scholars suggest that the events described in the Iliad, such as the destruction of Troy and the Odyssey pertain to this period. When I was an undergrad, studying on the western slope of Fiji Hill in 1969, a professor of religion expressed that same hypothesis.
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posted on
05/16/2021 11:30:30 AM PDT
by
Fiji Hill
To: LuciusDomitiusAutelian
Read it. It is climate change propaganda....
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posted on
05/16/2021 11:32:11 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: rktman
LOL! Can I get me a chariot license?
(Thinking about Kerry)
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posted on
05/16/2021 11:35:57 AM PDT
by
proud American in Canada
(Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision. Winston Churchill )
To: LuciusDomitiusAutelian
Won’t let me see till I remove the add blocker. Did so, now they want me to pay for the article.
No thanks.
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posted on
05/16/2021 11:36:09 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
To: LuciusDomitiusAutelian
Surely researchers can do DNA analysis of burials before and after the โ sea peopleโ invasions are determine their origin.
Itโs a real STRETCH to call ISIS a natural development in reaction to ongoing change...ISIS was and is a man-made terror weapon intended as a political tool by globalists looking to topple regimes unfavorable to their goals.
Yeah obama hillary rice and biden....weโre talking about you,
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posted on
05/16/2021 11:37:04 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
To: PapaBear3625
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posted on
05/16/2021 11:38:35 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
To: LuciusDomitiusAutelian
I have read that there is evidence of an ancient flood.
There is a funny movie about the Flood with Steve Carell. He is compelled to build an ark and all the animals are attracted to him.
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posted on
05/16/2021 11:38:40 AM PDT
by
proud American in Canada
(Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision. Winston Churchill )
To: proud American in Canada
I knew where you were going with it. ๐๐
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posted on
05/16/2021 11:43:18 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/16/2021 11:47:24 AM PDT
by
FrogMom
(Time marches on...)
To: LuciusDomitiusAutelian
I’m pretty sure that the marauding force from the sea that destroyed these civilizations were from the early Democrat nation.
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posted on
05/16/2021 11:49:10 AM PDT
by
econjack
To: LuciusDomitiusAutelian
One theory never discussed (or fact, depending on one's belief system) is Judgement. Those things were biblical.
Climate change...(rolling eyes here)
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posted on
05/16/2021 11:50:36 AM PDT
by
LibertyWoman
("Where there is no law, there is no liberty." Benjamin Rush)
To: proud American in Canada
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