London and relocate the royal courtfirst in Salisbury, until the
plague struck there as well, and then in Oxford.
The early decades of the twelfth century witnessed the collapse
of the Hittite empire, and of many smaller centres of power
throughout the Near Eastern world. In the following period, the so-
called Iron Age, some of the former Bronze Age cities and states
disappeared altogether, like the wealthy Hittite vassal kingdom
ended the Hittite world. Figure 25.3Agruesome sci-fi explanation of what
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