AHIS150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Klement Gottwald, Tjeker, Acculturation
28 Aug 2018
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* the beginning of the iron age i is marked by the collapse of the traditional canaanite palace- based society. Additionally, imperial powers withdraw and local people groups are left to struggle for possession of the land between. * arrival of new people groups: philistines and israelites. * context: interconnected system; class disparity; environmental factors; wars. * evidence of collapse: destruction layers and disappearances of world powers: accounts; cessation of scribal culture , urbanisation, imports. * evidence of continuity: destruction layers are not synchronous; some areas less effected and others show material continuity. * reconfigured trade routes, now with cyprus as the hub. * decline of the ramesside house; by ramesses 4th?, the priesthood of amun was more powerful than pharaoh and upon his death the new kingdom fell. * elamites sack babylon (1155), then babylonia sacks susa (1110); assyrian decline, yet continuity; fragmentation of mesopotamia. * aramean kingdoms established; arab & chaldean migrations.
