2: Egypt's Retreat and the Emergence of New Kingdoms in the Early Iron Age AUTHOR NAME: Eric Cline BOOK TITLE: 1177 BC, the year civilization collapsed; After 1177 BC, The Survival of Civilizations Following the collapse, Egypt, despite surviving, merely cop
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Egypt's Retreat and the Emergence of New Kingdoms in the Early Iron Age
BOOK TITLE: 1177 BC, the year civilization collapsed; After 1177 BC, The Survival of Civilizations
Following the collapse, Egypt, despite surviving, merely coped and retreated from the international stage, entering the chaotic Third Intermediate Period. The resulting power vacuum allowed the emergence of smaller kingdoms like Israel, Judah, and Moab. Archaeology uses Old Testament texts as guideposts for the First Millennium BC. The Philistines are identified as the Sea Peoples group called the Peleset, evidenced by DNA extracted from Ashkelon burials.
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| 0:34.6 | The year civilization collapsed, dated. This is the Bronze Age ending in a series of catastrophes, but it's about to introduce the Iron Age. The way to think about this in terms of literature is the Odyssey and the Iliad are the Bronze Age. The Iron Age that follows looks a whole lot like the Old Testament. |
| 0:58.0 | So right now we're going to go to Israel at the time, and the Israelites via Egypt. |
| 1:06.4 | Professor, there are lessons to be learned about how some of the Big Eight, Big Seven, Big Six, the global traders of 1,300 BC, how the ones succeeded in the ones that didn't. |
| 1:19.6 | Egypt had a series of rulers from Ramsey's III, I believe he was murdered by his wife and his son, or her son, to Ramsey's 11. |
| 1:31.1 | And this is the 22nd dynasty. |
| 1:34.2 | What do we find in there that tells us the catastrophes 1177 is wearing him down? |
| 1:41.0 | What's in there? |
| 1:43.2 | So in the aftermath of the collapse, and Ramsey's the third is the one who defeats the |
| 1:51.0 | sea peoples that we've mentioned in 1177, but he is then, as you just mentioned, |
| 1:57.0 | assassinated apparently by his wife and son, a minor wife, and his mummy's been found |
| 2:03.7 | with his throat slashed. |
| 2:06.2 | So after him, there's a series of additional pharaohs that actually 19th, 20th, until |
| 2:12.4 | the 21st and onward in terms of dynasties. |
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