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Re:Late Bronze Age Collapse by lordleft on Friday July 10, 2026 @09:14AM (#48859481)
Beware the Sea Peoples
Re:Late Bronze Age Collapse by forinti on Friday July 10, 2026 @09:32AM (#48859689)
There's a Portuguese saying "há mouro na costa" which is literally "there are moor at the coast" and means that there is something fishy going on.
Re:Late Bronze Age Collapse by Al-Khwarizmi on Friday July 10, 2026 @11:27AM (#48861273)
Curious, in Spanish we have the same saying, but always in the negative version ("no hay moros en la costa") which is something you say when you're doing something secret and there is no one around who could see, hear or cause trouble.
Re:Late Bronze Age Collapse by pbhjpbhj on Friday July 10, 2026 @12:26PM (#48862108)
In the UK we say 'the coast is clear' when telling someone that 'there is no-one around to see any misdeeds you're about to do'. Nothing about Moors, nor even Spaniards!
Re:Late Bronze Age Collapse by hackyhacky on Friday July 10, 2026 @09:38AM (#48859772)
The Moors existed about 1900 years after the Sea People of the Bronze Age.
Re:Late Bronze Age Collapse by nkrisc on Friday July 10, 2026 @09:49AM (#48859895)
I don’t think they’re implying the moors are responsible for the Bronze Age collapse, merely drawing parallels.
Re:Late Bronze Age Collapse by evanjrowley on Friday July 10, 2026 @09:19AM (#48859541)
In an alternate timeline, The Sea Peoples are Romans sailing to England, the Anglo-Saxons, the Normans. Things became fuzzy when the English themselves became other civilization's Sea Peoples.
Re:Late Bronze Age Collapse by appreciatorBus on Friday July 10, 2026 @09:35AM (#48859729)
I would wager that almost every civilization has been some other civilization’s sea people at some point in it’s history.
Re:Late Bronze Age Collapse by mr_toad on Friday July 10, 2026 @10:37AM (#48860624)
If invaders appear out of ‘nowhere’, it’s usually by boat or on horseback.
Re:Late Bronze Age Collapse by stymaar on Friday July 10, 2026 @09:52AM (#48859937)
Well, at least not civilizations where dreams dry up.
Re:Late Bronze Age Collapse by mannykannot on Saturday July 11, 2026 @07:35AM (#48871100)
And don't forget the Vikings, who may provide the best analogy to the Sea Peoples.
Re:Late Bronze Age Collapse by rawgabbit on Friday July 10, 2026 @12:35PM (#48862220)
I wish the author would go into detail about the sea peoples. From what I read, one theory is that they were subject allies of the Hittites; once the Hittites collapsed they went in search of better farmland with their entire families.
Re:Late Bronze Age Collapse by ch4s3 on Friday July 10, 2026 @12:54PM (#48862432)
The actual historical evidence is super thin outside of a stele in Egypt.