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island. Then came the Sea People (and Philistines) invasion at the beginning of the XIIth c. which ended the Bronze Age culture in the island as a whole and opened the Iron Age or Cypriote Per I period, late Cypriote III. After having burnt down the Achaean residence in Enkomi and settled in the island, the invaders with their navy now based on the southern ports of Cyprus, advanced further, to be defeated by Ramses III, ca. 1188.
Those who had remained in Cyprus, mixed with the remnants of the Bronze Age population, soon restared the activity and prosperity of Enkomi. The well known copper ingots found these belong to this XIIth c. period, as well as the ivories now in the British Museum. It is during this period also that we observe a general determination of the climate in the island which caused the lower part of the town to be flooded during the winter rains and to be partially abandonded. Floors were raised and windows and doors blocked in order to cope with the situation. This return of a cooler and wetter climat after the dry continental climat which characterized the Late Bronze Age, has been observed also in protohistoric Europe, where it profoundly affected the Iron Age cultures (Hallstatt period) and contributed to set in motion ethnic migrations which eventually upset the whole Italo- when reaching the Mediterranean.
Mycenae was ________ probably during the first half of the XIIth c. and soon afterwards, the Greeks were which which in Argos is contemporary with these events, meker the appearance also in Early Iron Age or Sea People level of Enkomi (floor levels III and II) to become the predominant pottery there and the latest
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