Beware the Sea Peoples

There's a Portuguese saying "há mouro na costa" which is literally "there are moor at the coast" and means that there is something fishy going on.

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Al-Khwarizmi 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Curious, in Spanish we have the same saying, but always in the negative version ("no hay moros en la costa") which is something you say when you're doing something secret and there is no one around who could see, hear or cause trouble.

	▲	pbhjpbhj an hour ago \| parent [-]
		In the UK we say 'the coast is clear' when telling someone that 'there is no-one around to see any misdeeds you're about to do'. Nothing about Moors, nor even Spaniards!

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hackyhacky 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The Moors existed about 1900 years after the Sea People of the Bronze Age.

	▲	nkrisc 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don’t think they’re implying the moors are responsible for the Bronze Age collapse, merely drawing parallels.

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rawgabbit an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wish the author would go into detail about the sea peoples. From what I read, one theory is that they were subject allies of the Hittites; once the Hittites collapsed they went in search of better farmland with their entire families.

	▲	ch4s3 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The actual historical evidence is super thin outside of a stele in Egypt.

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evanjrowley 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In an alternate timeline, The Sea Peoples are Romans sailing to England, the Anglo-Saxons, the Normans. Things became fuzzy when the English themselves became other civilization's Sea Peoples.

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appreciatorBus 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I would wager that almost every civilization has been some other civilization’s sea people at some point in it’s history.

	▲	mr_toad 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If invaders appear out of ‘nowhere’, it’s usually by boat or on horseback.
	▲	stymaar 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Well, at least not civilizations where dreams dry up.