Table of Contents
- 1 Did the Trojan War cause the Bronze Age collapse?
- 2 What was suggested as the cause of the Bronze Age collapse?
- 3 When did the Bronze Age Collapse?
- 4 When did the Bronze Age Collapse occur?
- 5 When did the Bronze Age collapse?
- 6 What caused the collapse of the Bronze Age?
- 7 What is the epic cycle of the Trojan War?
- 8 Is there any historical evidence of the Trojan War?
Did the Trojan War cause the Bronze Age collapse?
There is no cause of the Bronze Age collapse, because it never happened.
What was suggested as the cause of the Bronze Age collapse?
Historian Robert Drews in his book The End of the Bronze Age has on his list of possible causes of the collapse the following: earthquakes, mass migrations, ironworking, drought, systems collapse, raiders and changes in warfare.
Who did the Bronze Age Collapse?
The Sea Peoples were a confederacy of naval raiders who harried the coastal towns and cities of the Mediterranean region between c. 1276-1178 BCE, concentrating their efforts especially on Egypt. They are considered one of the major contributing causes to the Bronze Age Collapse (c. 1250-c.
When did the Bronze Age Collapse?
1200 BC – 1150 BC
Late Bronze Age collapse/Periods
When did the Bronze Age Collapse occur?
Who won Trojan War?
The Greeks
The Greeks won the Trojan War. According to the Roman epic poet Virgil, the Trojans were defeated after the Greeks left behind a large wooden horse and pretended to sail for home. Unbeknown to the Trojans, the wooden horse was filled with Greek warriors.
When did the Bronze Age collapse?
What caused the collapse of the Bronze Age?
A major theory behind the Bronze Age collapse was the flow of tin drying up, which made manufacture of bronze impossible. I suspect there was a trade dispute where the Mycenaeans felt the Trojans “stole” the supply of tin, perhaps because Wilusa (Troy) controlled an important trade route.
What is the main conflict of the Trojan War?
Trojan War. Contents. The story of the Trojan War—the Bronze Age conflict between the kingdoms of Troy and Mycenaean Greece–straddles the history and mythology of ancient Greece and inspired the greatest writers of antiquity, from Homer, Herodotus and Sophocles to Virgil.
What is the epic cycle of the Trojan War?
Many of the most familiar episodes of the war, from the abduction of Helen to the Trojan Horse and the sack of Troy, come from the so-called “Epic Cycle” of narratives assembled in the sixth century B.C. from older oral traditions.
Is there any historical evidence of the Trojan War?
There has been much debate over historical evidence of the Trojan War. Archaeological finds in Turkey suggest that the city of Troy did exist but that a conflict on the immense scale of a 10-year siege may not have actually occurred.