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The Sea Peoples: Destruction and Migration in the Late Bronze Age
TLDR The Sea Peoples were a loose affiliation of different groups, including migrant families and professional raiders, who engaged in predatory behavior such as sacking cities and looting. While their origins and motivations are still largely speculative, evidence suggests that they may have been responsible for the destruction of cities and palaces during the late Bronze Age, and their movements may have led to migration and settlement in different parts of the Mediterranean.
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The Sea Peoples were responsible for the destruction and devastation of many cities and palaces during the end of the Bronze Age, as documented by the pharaohs of Egypt and other written texts.
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The Sea Peoples are the most likely candidates responsible for the destruction of cities and palaces during the late Bronze Age, as documented by Egyptian texts and archaeological evidence.
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The Egyptian texts describing the Sea Peoples' invasions of Egypt are highly ideological, but most scholars believe that at least the basic events described in the texts did take place, and the names mentioned in the texts are believed to be geographic and ethnic labels that correlate with known places in the Bronze Age world.
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Seafaring traders from Sicily and Sardinia likely knew about the wealthy and potentially welcoming world in the eastern Mediterranean, and the Mycenaeans played a significant role in connecting the central and western Mediterranean with the east.
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The linguistic evidence suggests that there is a direct connection between the names of Homer's Greeks and the Sea Peoples in Egyptian texts, indicating that at least some of the Sea Peoples originated from the Mycenaean world in the Aegean.
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The Mycenaean material culture does not imply political, ethnic, or cultural unity, and it is important to be cautious about tying material culture to language and names; the problem of the Sea Peoples is difficult to solve because even when we have some information about them, there are still many unanswered questions and it is mostly informed speculation.
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The Sea Peoples were likely a loose affiliation of different groups, some of which were migrant families and others were professional raiders and soldiers, who engaged in predatory behavior such as sacking cities and looting, but they were not a coordinated force or a set of whole peoples on the move.
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The Sea Peoples were likely pirates who engaged in long-distance movement and predatory behavior, characterized by largely egalitarian and multi-ethnic tribal societies, and their material markers would be diverse in origin.
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The evidence of pottery and other material markers suggests a mass migration of people from the Aegean to the southern Levant around 1200 BC, which eventually became the Philistines, but some scholars argue that the idea of mass migration is often assumed and the evidence is interpreted in a circular manner.
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The evidence of pots resembling those from the Aegean in the southern Levant does not necessarily indicate mass migration, as cultural contact and the spread of pottery-making techniques are also plausible explanations, and the complexities of migration and the specific dynamics of different migration events must be taken into account when analyzing the evidence.
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The Sea Peoples may have been the beginning of a process of migration, with waves of people from the Aegean settling in different parts of the late Bronze Age world over decades or even centuries.
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