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The Sea Peoples Part 4 🏺 | What happened after the collapse of the Bronze Age? The answer depended on where you were. Mycenaean Greece lost its palaces, its writing system, and much of its population. The Hittite Empire disappeared, although smaller successor kingdoms survived. Egypt endured, but never regained the power of the New Kingdom. Then there were the Phoenicians, who did almost the opposite. As older powers collapsed, they expanded their trade networks across the Mediterranean, helped spread the alphabet the Greeks would later adopt, and became one of the best examples of a society that benefited from the new world the collapse created. New peoples and states also emerged in the spaces left behind, while iron gradually replaced bronze as long-distance trade networks changed. What came next included the Phoenicians, the Iron Age, new political powers, the alphabet, and eventually classical Greece. Sources: Cline, Eric H. 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Cline, Eric H. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Cline, Eric H. "Resilience and Rebirth: Lessons Learned from the Aftermath of the Late Bronze Age Collapse." The Ancient Near East Today 12, no. 4 (2024). Snodgrass, Anthony M. The Dark Age of Greece: An Archaeological Survey of the Eleventh to the Eighth Centuries BC. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1971. Yasur-Landau, Assaf. The Philistines and Aegean Migration at the End of the Late Bronze Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Naveh, Joseph. Early History of the Alphabet: An Introduction to West Semitic Epigraphy and Palaeography. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1982. Knapp, A. Bernard. The Archaeology of Cyprus: From Earliest Prehistory through the Bronze Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Feldman, Michael, et al. "Ancient DNA Sheds Light on the Origins of the Biblical Philistines." Science Advances 5, no. 7 (2019). "Greek Dark Age." World History Encyclopedia. Accessed 2026. #ancienthistory #bronzeage #theodyssey #historytok #ancientgreece