The End of the Bronze Age

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The End of the Bronze Age

Author	: Robert Drews
File Size	: 53,6 Mb
Publisher	: Princeton University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 31 March 2020
ISBN	: 9780691209975
Pages	: 264 pages

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The End of the Bronze Age by Robert Drews Book PDF Summary

The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century b.c. with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruction descended upon key cities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, bringing to an end the Levantine, Hittite, Trojan, and Mycenaean kingdoms and plunging some lands into a dark age that would last more than four hundred years. In his attempt to account for this destruction, Robert Drews rejects the traditional explanations and proposes a military one instead.

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