1200 Bc

EVENTS AND TRENDS

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 — The Cimmerians start settling the steppes of southern Russia ? (Undocumented conjecture).

1200 BC — Collapse of Hittite power in Anatolia with the destruction of their capital Hattusa .

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