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In 1177 B.C., marauding communities known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy were able to defeat them, but the win so weakened Egypt that this soon slid into drop, as did the majority of the surrounding civilizations. After decades of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came with an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms dropped like dominoes during the period of simply a few decades. Forget about Minoans or Mycenaeans. Forget about Trojans, Hittites, or Babylonians. The flourishing economy and cultures of the later second millennium B.C., which experienced stretched from Greece to Egypt and Mesopotamia, instantly ceased to are present, along with writing systems, technology, and monumental architecture. However the Sea Peoples exclusively could not have induced such widespread breakdown. How achieved it happen? In such a major new bank account of the sources of this "First Deep Ages", Eric Cline instructs the gripping story of the way the end was brought about by multiple interconnected failures, which range from invasion and revolt to earthquakes, drought, and the trimming of international trade routes. Bringing to life the radiant multicultural world of these great civilizations, he pulls a sweeping panorama of the empires and globalized peoples of the Past due Bronze Age and shows that it was their very interdependence that hastened their dramatic collapse and ushered in a dark time that lasted decades. A compelling blend of narrative and the latest scholarship, 1177 B.C. sheds new light on the sophisticated ties that offered go up to, and eventually destroyed, the flourishing civilizations of the Past due Bronze Age - and this set the level for the emergence of traditional Greece.
