Marked Ugarit

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Bronze Age collapse

Within a few generations, the palaces of Greece, the Hittite empire and many cities of the Levant were destroyed or abandoned, and Egypt fought off the “Sea Peoples”. Drought, earthquakes, war and broken trade have all been blamed.

Place
Ugarit · Hattusa · Medinet Habu · UluburunThe Middle East, Europe, Africa
Laid out as
A theme across timeOne idea followed through the eras it crosses.
Lessons
5 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IA connected world
  2. IIThe Uluburun shipwreck
  3. IIIUgarit’s last letters
  4. IVThe Sea Peoples
  5. VDrought, quake or war?

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Ramesses III
  • Ammurapi of Ugarit

Objects

  • The Uluburun copper ingots
  • Reliefs of the Sea Peoples at Medinet Habu

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1250 BC to 1100 BC. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?