CLCV 115 Exam 1 Flashcards
(144 cards)
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Time of Upper Paleolithic
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40,000-12,500 BC
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Time of Mesolithic
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12,500-8,500 BC
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Time of Neolithic
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8,500-3,000 BC
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Time of Bronze Age
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3,000-1,200 BC
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Time of Early Bronze Age
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3,000-2,000 BC
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Time of Middle Bronze Age
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2,000-1,600 BC
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Time of Late Bronze Age
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1,600-1,200 BC
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Time of Iron Age/Dark Age/Proto-Geometric
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1,200-900 BC
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Time of Geometric Period
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900-700 BC
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Time of Domestication of goats
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8,500 BC
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Time of walls of Jericho
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7,800 BC
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Time of invention of ceramic pottery
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6,500 BC
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Time of invention of the wheel
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4,500 BC
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Time of invention of writing
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3,000 BC
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Time of house of tiles destroyed
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2,250 BC
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Time of battle of Qadesh
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1,285 BC
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Time of Trojan War
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1,265 BC
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Time of collapse of Bronze Age
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1,200 BC
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Time of alphabet appearing in Greece
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735 BC
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Time of Hesiod’s Theogony
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700 BC
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What chronological period were Sumerians?
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Early Bronze
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What chronological period were Egyptians?
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Early Bronze
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What chronological period were Cycladic Islanders?
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Early Bronze
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What chronological period were Early Helladic Greeks?
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Early Bronze
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What chronological period were Babylonians?
Middle Bronze
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What chronological period were Minoans?
Middle Bronze
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What chronological period were Indo-Europeans (Hittites, Mycenaeans)
Late Bronze
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What chronological period were Semites?
Late Bronze
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What chronological period were Hesiod and Homer?
Geometric
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What cultures were Semitic?
Babylonians, Phonecians, Ugaritians, Hebrews, Assyrians
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What cultures were Indo-European?
Greeks, Romans, Hittites, Teutonic
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What cultures are miscellaneous?
Jericho, Catalhoyuk, Sumerians, Egyptians, Minoans, Sea peoples
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Paleolithic
Old Stone age, humans were hunter-gatherers, worshiped quadrupeds/Great Goddess as appreciation for killing things with a soul for food
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Animism
Worship of anything that has a spirit
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Great Goddess
Paleolithic deity, symbol of fertility embodied by Venus figurines
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Venus figurines
Paleolithic carvings emphasizing female aspects of fertility
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Anthropomoprhic
Shaped like a human
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Gynomorphic
Having the shape of a woman or womb
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Theriomorphic
God in the form of animals
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Bucrania
Cow skills, Catalhoyuk shrines formed out of cow skulls
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Etiological Myth
Myths explaining the cause of various aspects of life
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Aspect
Roles held by divinities
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Polytheism
The worship of more than one god
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Monotheism
Worship of a single god
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Parthenogenic
Birth with no male partner, virgin birth
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Variant
Alternate versions of myths
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Syncretism
A blending of aspects from different religions into one faith
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Personification
Attribution of human characteristics or nature to a nonhuman thing
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Millennium
One thousand years
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Eponym
A person whose name is the source of the name of something
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Teshub
Storm god of the Hittites
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Patronymic
Name derived from a paternal ancestor (-id, -ides, -ids)
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Cuneiform
System of writing using wedge-shaped symbols
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Creators and place of Cuneiform
Sumerians in Mesopotamia
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Linear A
Undeciphered Minoan writing system in Crete
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Linear B
Syllabic symbols, derived from the writing system of Minoan Crete, used in the Mycenaean palaces of the Late Bronze Age to write an early form of Greek
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Achaeans
Greeks, specifically northeastern Greece
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mythopoeic
Relating to the making of myths
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Theogony
Mythological description of the creation and origin of the gods
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Muses
9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, sing to Hesiod and inspire Theogony
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Graces
3 daughters of Zeus and Euronyme, represent the favor of the gods and beauty
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Chaos
Nothingness, first creation of universe
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Gaia
Earth, goddess of Earth, personification of Earth
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Tartarus
Dark pit underneath the Underworld
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Eros
Love, holds the universe together
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Cupid
God of love, Eros, represents mirth and joy
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Aether
Brightness, born of Night
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Ouranos
Sky, father of Kronos, is castrated and genitals form Aphrodite
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Oceanus
Titan, mythical fast-flowing river encircling the earth so swiftly that it carried the sun back to rise in the west
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Tethys
Titan, produced 3,000 rivers and 3,000 oceanids, one of which is the Styx
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Mnemosyne
Titan, Memory
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Kronos
Titan, father of Zeus, overthrows Ouranos
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Rhea
Wife of Kronos, mother of Zeus
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Themis
Titan of justice
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Cyclopes
Birthed by Gaia, produce thunderbolts for Zeus
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Hundred-Handeds
Birthed by Gaia,
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Aphrodite
Goddess of love, forms out of sea foam from Ouranos' genitals
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Erinyes
Furies, goddesses of vengeance, formed by Ouranos' blood hitting the Earth
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Pontus
Sea god
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Moirai
Three fates
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Clotho
Fate spinning the thread of life
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Lachesis
Fate that measures out the thread, determining the length of life
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Atropos
Fate who cuts the thread of life, destiny
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Hesperides
Daughters of night, guard sacred tree in the garden of Hesperides, the tree of life
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Location of the Garden of Hesperides
Northwestern Africa, the "ends of the earth" for the Greeks
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Ate
blindness, the folly that happens between the time you do something wrong and the time you get caught
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Nemesis
Goddess of revenge
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Nereids
Daughters of sea god Neris
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Oceanids
Nymphs of rivers and streams of the Earth
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Ceto
Sea monster, also name for scientific class for whales
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Iris
Messenger of Olympian gods during Titanochamy
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Helios
God of the sun
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Selene
Goddess of the moon
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Eos
Goddess of the dawn
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Boreas
North wind
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Zephyr
West wind
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Notos
South wind
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Zeus
Son of Kronos, raised in a cave on Crete
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Styx
Mythical river in the Underworld
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Power, force
Abstract concept created by Hesiod, aid Zeus in his fight against Kronos
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Nike
Victory goddess, often shown winged and flying
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Mt. Ditke
Zeus' hiding place
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Titanomachy
Battle of Titans and Kronos against Zeus and his allies
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Omphalos
Stone Kronos swallowed in place of Zeus, later placed by Zeus in the center of the Earth at Delphi
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Parnassus
Mountain sacred to arts and literature
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Castalian Spring
Spring at Delphi
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Ishtar
Sumerian goddess of love, fertility, war, multiple aspects
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Shamash
Sumerian sun god
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Ba'al
Major divinity of Ugarit and Phonecian people, "Lord"
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Tiamat
Defeated by Marduk in Enuma Elish
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Anu
Sky god for Sumerians, babylonians, and hittites,
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Marduk
Babylonian hero of Enuma Elish, head of Babylonian pantheon
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Enuma Elish
Babylonian creation myth
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Genesis
Catholic creation story
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Kumarbi Myth
Hittite Creation myth
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Marija Gimbutas
Contributed to Kurgan Hypothesis, studied Neolithic cultures
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Kurgan Hypothesis
Helped discover the origins of Indo-European language
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George Smith
Translator of cuneiform tablets
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James G. Frazer
Social anthropologist influential in early studies of ancient mythology, discovery of myths in lesser known cultures
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Iapetos
Titan, god of mortality
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Prometheus
Punished by Zeus for giving fire to humanity, crafted humanity out of clay
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Epimetheus
Foolish brother of Prometheus
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Atlas
Holds up the sky for challenging Zeus
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Pandora
Burdensome first woman, opened box full of the struggles of mankind
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Deucalion
Son of Prometheus, survived a flood sent by Zeus to punish human wickedness; they were then instructed to throw stones over their shoulders and these turned into humans to repopulate the world.
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Pyrrha
wife of Deucalion, a survivor of the flood
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Mt. Parnassus
Location of Delphi, where Deucalion and Pyrrha landed after the flood
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Hellen
First man made after Deucalion threw stones, named for Helladic greeks
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Ion
Second man made after throwing of stones, named for Ionian greeks
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Shem
Hebrew for "name", Noah's firstborn son
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Ham
Noah's rebellious son
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Mesolithic
Middle Stone Age; humans acquired the skills to fish, lived in huts rather than caves, no agriculture
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Neolithic
New stone age, farmers, humans can have bigger cities because of agriculture
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What period were grains harvested?
Neolithic
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Stone tower developed to protect and store grains
Tower of Jericho
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Sumerian temple made out of mud bricks
Ziggurat
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River Egyptian spirits crossed to get to the land of the dead
Nile
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Type of Greeks that live on the mainland
Helladic
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Type of Greeks living on Cycladic islands
Cycladic
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House where sauceboats were displayed, which later go out of style and we see Greek ceramics
House of Tiles
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Worshiped some form of the Great Goddess, language is untranslated, grew grapes and olives, worshipped in caves
Minoans of Crete
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Ugarit temple of Ba'al, invented the alphabet,
Phonecians
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Lion gate, great city of Mycenae, drew inspiration from Egyptain pyramids
Mycaneans
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Battle of Qadesh and trojan war caused collapse of Bronze Age and:
Migration of many peoples and Iron Age
