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* over-expansion and constant warfare weakens Egyptian empire
* over-expansion and constant warfare weakens Egyptian empire
* climate change impacts region: more migration into Egypt & destabilizing invasions
* climate change impacts region: more migration into Egypt & destabilizing invasions
** famines under Ramses II (Jewish exodus period) coincidental to collapse of Hittite Empire
** a possible cause is the Hekla 3 volcanic eruption in Iceland
** Egypt suffered crop losses and inflation in grain prices
*** famines resulted
*** economic decline coincidental to decline of Hittite Empire
* Bronze Age collapse:
* Bronze Age collapse:
** collapse coincidental to Mycenean (Greece) decline
** Egypt remained intact while most of the eastern Mediterranean was devastated
** Sea Peoples: "mysterious" raiders - likely from Italy or Greece who raided coastal areas of Eastern Mediterranean
*** Hittite empire fell, Mycenaean Greece collapsed, Assyria weakened, etc. see [[Bronze Age Collapse]] entry
** Sea Peoples:  
*** "mysterious" raiders
*** likely from Italy, Greece, and the Levant who raided coastal areas of Eastern Mediterranean
** Ramses III


== Post-Egyptian self-rule ==
== Post-Egyptian self-rule ==