CLA230H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Lefkandi, Geometric Art, Urartu
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Agriculture and trade decline, writing and monuments disappear. End of ba east med in crisis as the collapse of the hittites means invaders are pouring into the countryside. 1100- new kingdoms: phrygia, urartu, are wealthy and literate; neo-hittites in syria; assyria has had civil strife and does not reemerge until 900. There is a great deal of pop movements in the 12th-11th c in the near east, including the sea peoples; assyrian decline is exploited and damascus is created. Egypt defeats the sea-peoples but loses terr in levant. 12-11c, econ chaos, pop moves, states falling grks hit hard: 1000bc, grk pop only 1/3 as in. To make bronze, tin from anatolia was needed so they couldn"t get it after 1100. Iron was brought back but needed hotter fires, and gradually steel developed, but never as well in. This was an iron age regressive while advancement also took place.
