winjer
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The Med cultures were trading as far away as Britain but that doesn't mean they themselves had gone that far. If they only traded as far as Spain while the people there traded up to what was France and the British isles then the Sea people could have just been any of them heading south and east. They have to be another European group but it's strange to not find evidence of who or where they were based if they had the technology and man power to wipe out existing civilisations.
I doubt that the sea people were northern Europeans. They were probably southern Europeans.
And the reason for their impact was probably that these civilizations were already weakened by famine, internal conflict and trade routes breaking down.
So they might have been the final drop in the bucket.