Late Bronze Age collapse
In half a century the Hittites, Ugarit and Mycenae fall
Around 1200–1150 BC the Hittite Empire and Ugarit perished, the Mycenaean palaces burned and Egypt was weakened. Drought and famine, earthquakes, the breakdown of the tin trade and raids by the Sea Peoples all played a part; a dark age followed in Greece and the Near East.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Americas
- c. 1200 BC Rise of Olmec San Lorenzo — 23 years earlier