What the fuck happened

What the fuck happened.

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It collapsed

There are a lot of theories, from climate issues to earthquakes to the invasion of the sea peoples. I'm rather fond of the idea of a systems collapse, which is explained quite well (along with general bronze age collapse & background) in this video / book: youtube.com/watch?v=hyry8mgXiTk

An alliance of people who wore weird hats like squids, bronze upside-dowm guacamole bowls, and even trees

Sea people apologists need to fuck off

Globalization led to overdependence on foreign goods, leading to disaster when stressed by outside influence.

(((They))) happened

>bronze upside down guacamole bowls
Ah yes, the ancestors of Jeb!

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Sea peoples were Cypriots and probably mercenaries hired by Cyprus, Cyprus had the biggest deposits of copper in the Mediterranean world, they were rich as fuck, these niggas basically had the best armor of the time and equipped mercenaries from Italy, Greece, Sardinia and Sicily and were aided by pirates from South Anatolia, the Lukka (Lycians) and the Denyen (Denyem from Cilicia)

He had the warrior spirit of the Sea Peoples. He was the true strongman we needed instead we got the orange cuck.

The Cypriot commonwealth

Cypriot shipwreck with mixed Cypriot/Anatolian/Levantine/Greek/Sicilian crew

did cypriots wage war with egypt?

The Amarna tablets (1350-1310 bc) testify the fact that the king of Cyprus and the Pharaoh Akhenaton had an exchange of letters, the king of Cyprus is accused to aid the Lycian pirates during their attacks against the coasts of Egypt, btu he denies it, later on during 1100 bc, in the report of Wenamun, an Egyptian priest of Aon lands on Cyprus because the currents sent his ships astray from the regular course and the local population tries to kill him, so probably they were not in very good relations, in another document Ramses II or Ramses III, can't remember very well, said to have fought against some cities in Cyprus.

it fell, and there'll never be a complete consensus as to why the Bronze Age empires fell.

the only "most-probable" chain of events that historians can agree with was that there was a major famine that continued for consecutive years that exhausted food supplies, those who were starving took up to stealing, raiding, and killing in order to secure food, giving birth to the sea peoples. The empires couldn't maintain basic state functions anymore with the constant war and no food supply, so populations fled from the coast and into the mountains, leaving all that was built to rot.

as to what caused the failed harvests, geological studies of the area show that there was a spike in volcanic activity during the time of the collapse, probably enough to cool temperatures down to a point where harvests would fail.

It was because of Islam

this post is so stupid I feel sorry for you, delete it

You are even more stupid for responding to obvious bait.

There's so much we do not know about this time, the migrations going on were massive.

Just last year we found out there was a huge ass battle in the Baltic area at the same time.

There are definitely parallels to the migration period towards the end of the Roman Empire.

seconding this book. It rambles a little to long setting up the cultures and civilisations of the late bronze age, but it's overall a very good book

Troy didn't look anything like that lol, that looks like a weird form of neoclassical architecture

>14th century bc

history happend, do you really think everything lasts or stays the same forever ?

Wait wait

Tollensee, that old bronze age battlefield in northern Germany. Was that from around the same time as the Bronze Age collapse?

yes, there were also some South European warriors in the battle, and another recent study concluded that the Swedish Bronze age people made their bronze swords out of copper from Sardinia and Iberia.

there were people closely related with modern: swedes, poles and germans there also

Palace economies happened. With the economy of the entire eastern Med based on palaces it was only a matter of time. Once the sea peoples took out a few the whole network started to unravel

Opinions on this book? Is it worth reading?

I liked it, it's a good introduction to the topic. Eric Cline is overall a good archeologist

So besides this 1177 BC book, any other good books on the Bronze Age Collapse, or other things related to the Bronze age?