Timeline: 2000-1000 BC
Around 2000 BC, another wave of Indo-Europeans
left their homeland and emigrated across Europe and Asia. Some moved west
into Europe, where they branched into the Germans,
the Romans, and the Greeks.
Others moved south-east across Asia into India.
The Late Bronze Age saw a great flowering of cultures across Europe and
Asia. In Crete and Greece, the Minoans
and Mycenaeans built palaces. In Egypt, the New
Kingdom brought huge stone temples and statues, and the Egyptian pharaohs
conquered far to the south, into modern Ethiopia
and Eretria, and to the west into Libya, and to the north into Israel.
In West Asia, the Hittites
and Assyrians traded and
built great palaces also. In China, the Shang
Dynasty also used bronze and built palaces.
But by around 1200 BC, all of these kingdoms collapsed. We don't know exactly why, but people think it may have something to do with a general economic crisis about this time. A Dark Age followed. During the Dark Age, a lot of people left their homes looking for a better life. Many Greeks left Greece and colonized in Asia Minor (along the coast of modern Turkey) . Some people called the Philistines invaded Israel.
1000-500 BC
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