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1204 BC
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1200s BC (decade)
Events and trends
1207 BC
: Pharaoh
Merneptah
claims a victory over the people of
Israel
.
1206 BC
: Approximate starting date of
Bronze age collapse
, a period of
migration
, unrest and destruction in the eastern
Mediterranean
and
Near East
.
1204 BC
:
Theseus
, legendary
King of Athens
, is deposed after a reign of 30 years and succeeded by
Menestheus
, great-grandson of
Erichthonius II of Athens
and second cousin of
Theseus
' father
Aegeus
.
Menestheus
is reportedly assisted by
Castor and Polydeuces
of
Sparta
, who want to reclaim their sister
Helen
from her first husband
Theseus
.
Theseus
seeks refuge in
Skyros
, whose
King
Lycomedes
is an old friend and ally.
Lycomedes
, however, considers his visitor a threat to the throne and proceeds to
assassinate
him. (Other accounts place these events a decade earlier. See
1210s BC
.)
c.
1200 BC
:
Earliest writing
that survived exists in
Ancient China
.
c. 1200 BC:
Chariots
appear in Ancient China.
c. 1200 BC: Start of
Iron Age
in
Near East
, eastern
Mediterranean
, and
India
.
c. 1200 BC: Collapse of
Hittite
power in
Anatolia
with the destruction of their capital
Hattusa
.
c. 1200 BC: Massive migrations of people around the Mediterranean and the Middle-East. See
Sea People
for more information.
c. 1200 BC:
Aramaic
nomads and
Chaldeans
become a big threat to the former
Babylonian
and
Assyrian Empire
.
c. 1200 BC: Migration and expansion of
Dorian Greeks
. Destruction of Mycenaean city
Pylos
.
c. 1200 BC: The
Cimmerians
start settling the steppes of southern
Russia
? (Undocumented conjecture).
c. 1200 BC: The proto-Scythian
Srubna (Timber-grave) culture
expands from the lower
Volga
region to cover the whole of the North
Pontic
area.
c. 1200 BC:
Olmec
culture starts and thrives in
Mesoamerica
.
c. 1200 BC:
San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán
starts to flourish.
c. 1200 BC:
Ancient Pueblo Peoples
civilization in
North America
. (approximate date)
c. 1200 BC: Possible battle in the
Tollense
River Valley of northern Germany.
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