The Sea People were a very good fighting people, and with the advanced iron tools of the time as weapons, their army was very brave and good at war. They marched south along the eastern Mediterranean coast to attack Egypt, and during the time of Pharaoh Ramses II of Egypt, Egypt fought a protracted and far-reaching war with the Hittite Empire, the Battle of Kardesh, a key battle in a decades-long war between the two countries for dominion in Syria, which ended with the signing of a peace treaty between the two countries.
An important factor that prompted Egypt and the Hittites to conclude a contract was the invasion of the sea peoples, which was "difficult for the mud bodhisattvas to cross the river themselves", so the two countries ended the decades-long war for hegemony between the two countries for the sake of the overall situation, and you can imagine how fierce the sea peoples were at that time. As the Hittite Empire was dismantled by the Sea Peoples, the Egyptian Empire also entered a period of decline, and at first, the Sea Peoples only cooperated with the Libyans to attack Egypt, but by the time of Ramses III, the Sea Peoples had become the main force attacking Egypt.
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In the eighth year of the reign of Ramses III, the Maritime Peoples launched attacks on the Palestinian areas of Egypt and Syria, which seem to be very sought-after by Palestine and Syria, and all the peoples wanted to take it for themselves. According to the inscription of Ramses III, the sea people at that time consisted mainly of seven tribes. Although Ramses III resisted the invasion of the sea peoples, they were seriously injured, and the sea peoples once established themselves in the eastern Mediterranean.
The collapse of the Hittite Empire, the razing of Tasus, the destruction of Cyprus, Arallah and Ugarit by the invasion of the Sea Peoples, and the suspension of late Bronze Age civilizations in Syria and Palestine proved that no country at that time could completely stop the migration of the Sea Peoples. Many civilizations were interrupted by the invasion of the sea peoples, a catastrophe that historians have called the "Late Bronze Age Flood."
The armed migration of maritime peoples from the late 13th century BC to the beginning of the 12th century BC was a major event in the ancient Near East, and many countries were destroyed by them, along with the rich ancient civilizations that disappeared. As with the general colonial activities, the invasion of the sea peoples has also interrupted the historical process of these affected areas, new civilizations are slowly brewing, and many peoples of the sea peoples are also integrated into the production and life of the local peoples. They broke the old civilization system, and at the same time the new civilization system was being created.
For example, in Syria, Palestine settled in the sea people - the Philipstins, the ancestors of the Jews, the Hebrews fought a long war with them, in the war these Hebrews gradually divided into classes, gradually formed a state, at the end of the 12th century BC, the "sea people" invaded Palestine, they were called Philipstines. The Struggle of the Hebrews against the Philips accelerated class division and formed the state. Saul was the first king of the Hebrews, and Saul built a powerful army that defeated the Philipstins, giving the Hebrews a foothold in Palestine, and beginning with Saul's claim to the throne, the Hebrews entered the "age of judges."
Therefore, we cannot deny the armed migration of the maritime peoples in general, but must be viewed from the perspective of materialistic dialectics.
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