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cord-018449-4vdqq961	Norrie, Philip	How Disease Affected the End of the Bronze Age	2016-06-26		.txt	text/plain	13128	617	66	These are the real reason that the end of the Bronze Age in the Near East was called either the "catastrophe" or the "collapse" due to its short time frame of 50 years, the mass migration of the general population and the "Sea Peoples" plus the abandonment of cities such as Hattusa, the capital of the Hittite Empire c.1200 bce. Any historian trying to fi nd the cause of the end of the Bronze Age and the Hittite Empire must explain: the short time frame of approximately 50 years, when it occurred between 1200-1150 BCE ; the mass migrations not only of normal people but also of the "Sea Peoples"; and the fact that so many large cities, such as the Hittite capital Hattusa, were simply abandoned and not destroyed or occupied by raiders or invaders.	./cache/cord-018449-4vdqq961.txt	./txt/cord-018449-4vdqq961.txt