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1180s BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (153 words) |
 | 1184 BC April 24 - Traditional date of the fall of Troy. |
| 1181 BC - Menestheus, legendary King of Athens and veteran of the Trojan War, dies after a reign of 23 years and is succeeded by his nephew Demophon, a son of Theseus. |
| 1180 BC - Birth of Ramesses III of Egypt. |
| Sea Peoples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1396 words) |
| The earliest mention of the Sea Peoples is in an inscription of the Egyptian king Merneptah, whose rule is usually dated from 1213 BC to 1204 BC, although mention of individual groups does occur earlier (for example Denyen, during the reign of Amenhotep III, and Shardana, as mercenaries to Ramses II). |
| The abrupt end of several civilizations in the decades traditionally dated around 1200 BC have caused many ancient historians to hypothesize that the Sea People caused the collapse of the Hittite, Mycenaean and Mitanni kingdoms. |
| The city states were semi-literate in the sense that very few individuals could master the complex syllabary used to write Linear B and other written forms of the early Greek language, and, thus, relatively few documents were produced in daily life to bear witness to the fratricidal nature of the wars. |
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