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Topic
#1537

The mystery "Sea Peoples" of the late Bronze Age were most likely Central/Northern Europeans.

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The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

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After 8 votes and with 56 points ahead, the winner is...

MisterChris
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Number of rounds
3
Time for argument
One week
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Two weeks
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Description

Context: The fall of the Bronze Age is regarded by historians as the most catastrophic event in human history. With the attacks of the Sea Peoples, the great Bronze Age empires fell one by one. The Hittites, the Levant, and Greece felt their wrath. Even still, the great Sea Peoples are a complete historical mystery. Conjecture as to their identity has ranged from Greeks themselves (fighting other cultures then turning on eachother and destroying themselves, launching them into a Dark Age) to the ancestors of the Vikings. However, I posit that the Sea Peoples were most likely central Europeans.

I affirm this resolution. By accepting, you are negating.

Burden of Proof is shared.

R1- Constructive. Contender may rebut some of my points after they give a constructive in this round, but they MUST posit a constructive of their own.
R2-4- Fluid attack/defense. No set structure here.

Rules are simple:
1.No Kritiks
2.No New arguments made in final round
3.No trolling
4.No getting off topic
5.You must follow the Debate Structure
6.No Plagiarism
**ANY violation of these

Round 1
Pro
#1
It stinks that my opponent has immediately been banned upon joining the site, I was looking forward to the debate. I'll have to make another one of these sometime.

Anyways, I guess I just need to give a singular reason to vote Aff.

In that case, recent archaeological findings have shown that the Philistines of the late Bronze Age have European decent. For example, according to Prof. Peter Fischer,
‘We have, for instance, found pottery resembling corresponding items from Greece and Cyprus in terms of form and decoration, and also cylindrical loom weights for textile production that could be found in central and south-east Europe around the same time.
Since central Europe is the start place according to this archaeological record, this supports the theory that the central Europeans (Philistines) swept through Greece and Cyprus and worked their way to Jordan, meaning that the Sea Peoples can be traced back to central Europe. 
Con
#2
Forfeited
Round 2
Pro
#3
Extend.
Con
#4
Forfeited
Round 3
Pro
#5
Extendith
Con
#6
Forfeited