Early Mesopotamian Civilizations
Expansion and Contraction of Mesopotamian Empires
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The Era of the Smaller Civilizations
1400-600 BC
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.
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