The peoples of Europe have experienced widespread disruption as the peoples of the Tumulus cultures have expanded out from their central Europe homelands, just before about 1200 BC. The train of migrations and invasions that this set in motion has had a huge impact on the wider world. It probably caused the fall of the first civilization on the European mainland, that of the Mycenaeans in Greece, and led to the violent eruption of the “Sea Peoples” from southern Europe into Middle Eastern history.
Within Europe itself, the peoples of the old Tumulus cultures are now distributed around western, central and southern parts of the continent as the ancestors of today's Celts, Slavs and Italians.
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