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Events and trends
1207 BC : Pharaoh Merneptah claims a victory over the people of Israel .1206 BC : Approximate starting date of Bronze age collapse , a period of migration , unrest and destruction in the eastern Mediterranean and Near East .1204 BC : Theseus , legendary King of Athens , is deposed after a reign of 30 years and succeeded by Menestheus , great-grandson of Erichthonius II of Athens and second cousin of Theseus ' father Aegeus . Menestheus is reportedly assisted by Castor and Polydeuces of Sparta , who want to reclaim their sister Helen from her first husband Theseus . Theseus seeks refuge in Skyros , whose King Lycomedes is an old friend and ally. Lycomedes , however, considers his visitor a threat to the throne and proceeds to assassinate him. (Other accounts place these events a decade earlier. See 1210s BC .)c. 1200 BC : Earliest writing that survived exists in Ancient China .
c. 1200 BC: Chariots appear in Ancient China.
c. 1200 BC: Start of Iron Age in Near East , eastern Mediterranean , and India .
c. 1200 BC: Collapse of Hittite power in Anatolia with the destruction of their capital Hattusa .
c. 1200 BC: Massive migrations of people around the Mediterranean and the Middle-East. See Sea People for more information.
c. 1200 BC: Aramaic nomads and Chaldeans become a big threat to the former Babylonian and Assyrian Empire .
c. 1200 BC: Migration and expansion of Dorian Greeks . Destruction of Mycenaean city Pylos .
c. 1200 BC: The Cimmerians start settling the steppes of southern Russia ? (Undocumented conjecture).
c. 1200 BC: The proto-Scythian Srubna (Timber-grave) culture expands from the lower Volga region to cover the whole of the North Pontic area.
c. 1200 BC: Olmec culture starts and thrives in Mesoamerica .
c. 1200 BC: San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán starts to flourish.
c. 1200 BC: Ancient Pueblo Peoples civilization in North America . (approximate date)
c. 1200 BC: Possible battle in the Tollense River Valley of northern Germany.[ 1]
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