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What happened 3200 years ago?
More than 3,200 years ago, a vast, interconnected civilization thrived. Then it suddenly collapsed. What happened? More than 3,200 years ago, the Mediterranean and Near East were home to a flourishing and interconnected Bronze Age civilization fueled by lucrative trade in valuable metals and finished goods.
What happened in the late Bronze Age?
The late Bronze Age saw a wave of highly developed civilizations decline and collapse quite suddenly, between around 1200 – 1150 BCE. Several early writing systems vanished, in what is sometimes referred to as the world’s first dark age, and many regions would take centuries to recover.
What happened 1200bce?
In Heeren’s organization of Greek prehistory his “first period” was dubbed, “The most ancient traditional history down to the Trojan war, about B.C. 1200.” Of course, 1200 BCE also naturally acted as the starting date for his second period that ended with the Persian conquest.
What is the earliest year BC?
5500–3000 B.C. Earliest recorded date in Egyptian calendar (4241 B.C.).
Was ancient Greece in the Bronze Age?
Bronze Age Greece Greece became a major hub of activity on the Mediterranean during the Bronze Age. The Bronze Age in Greece started with the Cycladic civilization, an early Bronze Age culture that arose southeast of the Greek mainland on the Cyclades Islands in the Aegean Sea around 3200 B.C.
What killed the Bronze Age?
Archaeological evidence suggests a succession of severe droughts in the eastern Mediterranean region over a 150-year period from 1250 to 1100 B.C. likely figured prominently in the collapse. Earthquakes, famine, sociopolitical unrest and invasion by nomadic tribes may also have played a role.
When was Greek first spoken?
3rd millennium BC
History. Greek has been spoken in the Balkan peninsula since around the 3rd millennium BC, or possibly earlier. The earliest written evidence is a Linear B clay tablet found in Messenia that dates to between 1450 and 1350 BC, making Greek the world’s oldest recorded living language.