Near East powers, including the Hittite empire and Egypt's New Kingdom, were rocked by crisis and invasion around year 1200 BCE. Historians speculate that their collapse was mainly due to a. the rapid spread of a mysterious disease, known as the "walking death," that devastated these powers and their peoples b.invasion from the Assyrians, who enjoyed the advantages of iron age weaponry against their Bronze Age opponents c. invasions from peoples fleeing the lost continent of Atlantis O d. invasions from marauding peoples who seem to have been fleeing from environmental catastrophe and famine

Near East powers, including the Hittite empire and Egypt's New Kingdom, were rocked by crisis and invasion around year 1200 BCE. Historians speculate that their collapse was mainly due to a. the rapid spread of a mysterious disease, known as the "walking death," that devastated these powers and their peoples b.invasion from the Assyrians, who enjoyed the advantages of iron age weaponry against their Bronze Age opponents c. invasions from peoples fleeing the lost continent of Atlantis O d. invasions from marauding peoples who seem to have been fleeing from environmental catastrophe and famine