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Cover Page 1 Half-title Page 3 Title Page 5 Copyright Page 6 Contents 7 List of Illustrations 9 Acknowledgments 11 Abbreviations 13 Part One: Introduction 15 Chapter One: The Catastrophe and Its Chronology 17 Chapter Two: The Catastrophe Surveyed 22 Anatolia 22 Cyprus 25 Syria 27 The Southern Levant 29 Mesopotamia 31 Egypt 32 Greece and the Aegean Islands 35 Crete 40 Summary 43 Part Two: Alternative Explanations of the Catastrophe 45 Chapter Three: Earthquakes 47 Chapter Four: Migrations 62 The Egyptian Evidence 62 The Origins of the Thesis 67 Archaeological and Historical Considerations 75 Chapter Five: Ironworking 87 Chapter Six: Drought 91 Chapter Seven: Systems Collapse 99 Chapter Eight: Raiders 105 Part Three: A Military Explanation of the Catastrophe 109 Chapter Nine: Preface to a Military Explanation of the Catastrophe 111 Chapter Ten: The Chariot Warfare of the Late Bronze Age 118 The Beginnings of Chariot Warfare 118 Chariotries: Numbers and Costs 120 How Chariots Were Used in Battle 127 The Battles at Megiddo and Kadesh 143 Chapter Eleven: Footsoldiers in the Late Bronze Age 149 "Runners": The Role of Infantrymen in Chariot Warfare 155 The Recruitment of Infantrymen in th
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- Author
- Robert Drews;
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (79 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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