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Anatolia was first inhabited by hunter-gatherers during the Paleolithic era, which transitioned into the Neolithic era. Hacilar culture flourished in the Southern Anatolia by 5400 B.C. By Early Bronze Age, period of "urbanization" on the central Anatolian plateau resulted in emergence of complex societies, including Troy.(p. 231) By 1400 B.C., Hittite Empire flourished in the central Anatolian part, bordered by Arzawa Kingdom which extended into the Aegean coast; Sea Peoples caused the collapse of their rules. Post-Hittite Anatolia was a patchwork including peoples such as Phrygians, Carians, Cimmerians, Lycians, Lydians, and Urartians. Various genetic studies suggested that these indigenous populations form the basis of modern Turkish population today, with the "genetic continuity of Anatolia’s Iron Age populations into the Seljuk, Mamluk and Ottoman eras." Prior to Turkic arrival, Anatolia had been Hellenized, after Alexander the Great's conquest in 334 BC.