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Groups Jiang frames as refugees fleeing destruction in Europe and joining the collapse pressure on Egypt and other Bronze Age states.
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Sea Peoples
Groups Jiang frames as refugees fleeing destruction in Europe and joining the collapse pressure on Egypt and other Bronze Age states.
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Migrating raiders/refugees of the Bronze Age collapse who settled as Philistines in Jiang's reconstruction.
Glossary
Multiple seaborne groups, framed here as pirates and refugees, who attacked Egypt and helped destroy late Bronze Age powers.
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The Bronze Age world collapses around 1200 BCE through a perfect storm of climate change, drought, famine, migration, Sea Peoples attacks, and regional vulnerability.
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Jiang frames the Sea Peoples as economic migrants or refugees from famine who teamed up with pirates and overwhelmed existing civilizations.
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Jiang says the Bronze Age collapse produced mass migration by Sea Peoples, who attacked the Hittites, the Levant, and Egypt before settling in the Levant as Philistines, many of them Greek.
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The Sea Peoples are presented as the known proximate cause of the collapse, visible in Egyptian records as multiple groups attacking from the sea rather than one unified people.
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Jiang characterizes the Sea Peoples as a combination of pirates and refugees, hungry groups who attacked Egypt because it was the breadbasket of the world.
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"...because Egypt is under attack during this time by by the Sea Peoples what we believe is that the Sea Peoples are actually refugees..."
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"...Troy is in the center of global trade and that's why people fight over the location of the city so the Mycenaean Greece is..."
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"...It's a flat land. So it's very easy for the mountain people to come invade. And it's very easy for outsiders to come and..."
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"...Egyptian records. Okay? The Egyptians write about the coming of the Sea Peoples. And so, if you just watch the arrows. Okay? This is..."
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"...is another map showing the invasions. Okay? These, again, are the Sea Peoples. These are just economic migrants. These are refugees. Similar to what's..."
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"These are called the Sea Peoples. They're basically like pirates. And there are these massive waves of Sea People attacking the Hittites, attacking the..."
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"...presence that is very aggressive and expansionist, okay? So now the people in the Levant need to come together and fend off this threat..."
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"Lots of nomads, people we call the Bedouins. You also had people living in the hills of the Levant, the hill people. And you..."
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"...know that what caused this collapse are what we call the Sea Peoples. Sea Peoples. And we know because Egypt has written records of..."
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"And Egypt had to spend decades in order to repulse the Sea Peoples. What we know is the Sea Peoples, whoever they were, they..."
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"Sea Peoples flowing from North and West Europe and sweeping the entire, sweeping food to the entire Middle East. And the reason why is..."
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