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The 1200s BC is a
decade which lasted from 1209 BC to 1200 BC.
Events and trends
1207 BC
1206 BC : Approximate starting date of
Bronze age collapse , a period of
migration , unrest and destruction in the eastern
Mediterranean and
Ancient Near East , and beginning of the
Iron Age in the 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: Start of Pan-
Illyrians
c. 1200 BC: Collapse of
Hittite power in
Anatolia with the destruction of their capital
Hattusa .
c. 1200 BC: The
Israelite highland settlement takes place, with a notable increase in the settled population in the hills north of
Jerusalem during this time.
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: Final destruction of the major Mycenian city excavated at
Iklaina .
c. 1200 BC: The
Cimmerians are conjectured to have started settling the steppes of southern
Russia .
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:
Ancestral Puebloan civilization in
North America . (approximate date)
c. 1200 BC: Possible battle in the
Tollense River Valley of northern Germany.
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c. 1200 BC: The
Yajurveda is composed.
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