The Era of the Smaller Civilizations

Beginning ca. 1400: The Large Empires of the Ancient Near East are weakened.

• 1400: Minoan culture is destroyed. Mycenean Greeks dominate the Eastern Mediterranean.
• 1375-1350: Ikhnaton's reforms in Egypt. Egypt crippled by internal disruptions.
• 1250: Israelites begin conquest of Canaan.
• 1230: Egypt is invaded by the "Sea People."
• 1230: Myceneans conquer Troy

Beginning ca. 1200: The Era of the Smaller Civilizations.

• 1190: Philistines settle along the Eastern Mediterranean coast..
• 1100: Dorian invasion of Greece.Ancient Greece Chronology
• 1100: Arameans invade Mesopotamia.
• 1075: Assyrian Empire collapses.
• 1020-586: The Kingdom of Israel.Ancient Israel Chronology

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