Samson struggled throughout his life to control his emotions. He made poor choices that often led to disastrous consequences. When challenged, Samson usually responded with impulsively violent outbursts that greatly harmed the people around him, often ending in death and destruction. Samson was a man living on the edge.*****As the period of the Judges ended, a cataclysmic apocalypse engulfed the entire Mediterranean and Near-East regions. Highly-advanced civilizations disappeared almost over-night: cities were suddenly depopulated and burned to the ground, economies collapsed, and writing disappeared. This "Late Bronze Age Collapse" was sudden, violent, and unprecedented...and partially the result of wars fought by the mysterious "Sea Peoples" who settled in Canaan and later became known as one of Israel's greatest enemies: The Philistines.