Practice question · Select all that apply
What actually happened in the eastern Mediterranean around 1200–1150 BCE?
Hints
- Several states vanished and their writing systems with them.
- One power survived, though permanently diminished.
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- B. The Hittite empire vanished, its capital burned and its language lost
- C. Ugarit was destroyed so suddenly that a final tablet survived in its kiln
- D. Mycenaean palaces burned and Linear B writing was forgotten for centuries
Why
Egypt survived, barely, and never recovered its reach. The Ugarit tablet is the age’s most haunting document: a plea reporting enemy ships, still in the oven when the city died.
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