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Destruction Of Mycenae Essay

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There have been many suggestions and hypotheses to explain that the destruction of the Mycenaean civilisation. This ranges from foreign invasion, civil war, collapse in trade, drought and natural disasters. All of these could be possible hypotheses as to why the Mycenaean civilisations fell, but none are certain as there is not enough evidence to back these hypotheses up. Mycenae was a very successful and powerful city. This would make it hard for the city to be brought down and for everything to be forgotten. Foreign invasion is a plausible hypothesis for the destruction of Mycenae. The theory is that there was a mass invasion by outsiders known to the Egyptians as ‘the sea people’ who invaded Egypt earlier as well. The ‘sea people’ could have invaded Mycenae and then settle in their land. This is a plausible hypothesis except there is no evidence to back it up, as there have been no foreign objects found in all of the ruins. This …show more content…

The fact that the Mycenaean civilisation was such a strong and powerful civilisation really shows that anything can happen. Life is so unpredictable and especially in the cases of natural disasters it is ruthless. Natural disasters cannot be avoided, they are inevitable. The danger of natural disasters is forever present, they are powerful and overwhelming. History shows a very strong cycle, civilisations rise and fall. They do not stay forever. For a civilisation to be very stable and last longer than the rest, their needs to be strict rules, guidelines and consequences for people who do not follows these rules. To stop war crimes and invasion of other cities their needs to be rules. A stable government is very important, leaders need to be strong willed and committed. Civilisations without these things would be very fragile, they would crumble within

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