Beyond kingdoms: Unravelling political complexity in Levantine Bronze Age

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Beyond kingdoms: Unravelling political complexity in Levantine Bronze Age

AMMAN – The Bronze Age in Greece and Levant was a period marked by great kings and local ”small” kings. The imperial centres in Egypt, Asia Minor and Mesopotamia exercised political, military and economic control over statelets located between them. During the time span of hundreds of years, same statelets would become vassals of one major power and after different political changes, they would switch its allegiance towards the other. The archiv…