Inspo art thread: Bronze Age Desert Civilizations Edition. Egypt, Nubia, Mesopotamia, etc. People, weapons, armor, and architecture, are welcome.
>>46267242
All of those were centered around rivers and considered the desert the equivalent of the ethnic parts of the inner city.
Tell me about the Sea People. Why did they wreck so much shit?
Worldbuilding question:
What would bronze age civilizations have looked like if they'd developed in jungles instead of deserts?
>>46269439
Because they were separate people whose life went to shit and they decided to go raid someone. And the "went to shit" part was mostly caused by a bunch of other Sea People in the same conditions.
>>46269485
Short answer: Look at the meso-americans.
>>46269485
It's hard to cultivate crops in the jungle because the dense growth is stealing the sunlight and it is hard to find Cow substitutes living in the dense woods but if you can find those I dunno mix meso-americans with Indoneasian natives.
>>46269439
>>46269509
If you can definitively answer that question your work will be read in history departments everywhere, forever.
>>46267263
Sargon of Akkad was not Babylonian, he was Assyrian. This would be an artist's depiction most likely of Hammurabi l.
>>46269439
Didn't they start appearing during the Bronze Age Collapse?
Basically they're the post apocalyptic raiders of the ancient world.
>>46269439
>>46272180
Apparently there existed an active network of warriors who could get organize and dispatched as armies all across Europe and the Agean sea. The all-greek army of Troy is one example, but they found another battlefield in Germany recently that contained the remains of folks from all over Europe as well.
When climate changes wrecked everyone, that network apparently decided to pack up and raid the fuck outta ALL the remaining rich places.
>>46269439
A chunk of them apparently came from the Mycenaeans who were fierce warriors and were the Greeks came to populate. There was a famine at some point and supposedly most of them pissed off and cos there was no food and either became or joined the Sea people.
How the fuck they actually destroyed the Hittite empire, and having done that, later got annihilated by Rameses III.
Though Rameses is said to have mobilized every single man of fighting age in the whole of Egypt to combat the threat.
>>46267489
who are these?
>>46268949
and these?
>>46279816
I believe they're Pre-Collapse Cretians if I remember those dresses right.
Sumer
Sumer worship
>>46279898
you might be right, i think i recognize the women's dresses there
>>46269945
Apparently parts of the jungle were being cultivated and the people inhabiting it only returned to slash-and-burn style agriculture after euro diseases reduced their population below what was required to keep the jungle at bay. People the day to ignore that what we saw of the Americas was all post-apocalyptical.
>>46279816
The first one, >>46267489
All the figures are based on the Santorini frescos. (The Akrotiri warriors’boar’s tusk helmets have a horsetail and seem to be decorated at the front and back with unidentified items, probably feathers. The throat strap is also visible. Note the huge tower shields and long spears, used in closed proto-phalanx formation. The tattooed ‘Lybian’ prisoners represented in the frescos have been deprived of their main weapons, their bows and arrows being held by the guards. Note the leather quiver of one of the prisoners, worn across the shoulders of one of the soldiers. Minoan women wore skirts that flared out from the waist in a bell shape, with many decorations attached to the cloth. Later designs were made from strips of fabric, sewn in ways that created rows of ruffles from waist to ankle. Women also wore close-fitting blouses that were cut low in the front to expose the breasts. Because the figure of the Minoan woman, with large breasts, large hips and tiny waist, was very similar to the female shape in fashion during the late 1800s, some scholars believe that Minoan women must have also worn some sort of framework under their skirts to support the bell shape.
>>46286444
The second one, >>46268949
The plate sets out to show a group of those Indo-European peoples who migrated into Greece around 2000–1800 BC, probably from the Balkans and Central Europe. The warriors in the foreground wear early forms of boar’s tusk helmet copied from the Mariupol and Kolonna specimens. This very primitive boar’s tusk helmet shows that this style of reinforcement and decoration was probably introduced to the Aegean world by the Indo-Europeans migrating from central and north European regions around 2000–1800 BC. Their weapons and jewellery are copied from various finds in central Greece, such as the bronze spearhead from Thiva (Thebes). The ‘proto-Greek’ Mynian woman is copied from a pottery idol from Euboea. Note the early Aegean style of her garments, borrowed from Crete and the islands. The early form of chariot is copied from a Late Neolithic pottery model dated 1700 BC from central Europe (Slovakia). The use of the chariot was most likely spread to the Greek mainland from the Near East after the Middle Bronze Age (about 1950–1550 BC) as a result of the central and eastern European migration and the Achaeans’ trade contacts with those regions, although the early attestation of its use in war comes from the Mycenaean Graves A stele.
neat thread
>Mesopotamia.
>Desert Civilization.
I tough those guys lived in the Cresent Fertile.
