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.
replyCurious, 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.
replyIn 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!
replyThe Moors existed about 1900 years after the Sea People of the Bronze Age.
replyI don’t think they’re implying the moors are responsible for the Bronze Age collapse, merely drawing parallels.
replyIn 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.
replyI would wager that almost every civilization has been some other civilization’s sea people at some point in it’s history.
replyIf invaders appear out of ‘nowhere’, it’s usually by boat or on horseback.
replyWell, at least not civilizations where dreams dry up.
replyAnd don't forget the Vikings, who may provide the best analogy to the Sea Peoples.
replyI 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.
replyThe actual historical evidence is super thin outside of a stele in Egypt.
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