Bronze Age Collapse

Because the Broze Age collpase was an event that occurred in the world world. Roughly around the middle east, Greece, and Egypt etc. Americas never reached the Bronze Age, as they never learned smelting to start, and just an ocean away and completely detached from the rest of the world.

If you want some good info on the subject I suggest you look up the topic on Extra Credit's Extra History side show. It's very informative and a good way to get a solid standing on the subject. Of course there is always much deeper things to learn, but they're good at getting you started and rough idea.

They new smelting they just didnt care. I thought this happened in the indus and china too rhough

Part of the Bronze Age collapse was a complete collapse in trade, and interaction between specific groups. Literacy plummeted and organization was virtually gone. People didn't return to the same level of social organization and luxury in that part of the world until the rise of Rome nearly 2000 some years later. China probably was effected in some way by trade, but not in any huge signification way because of how far removed they where. Most of Western and Northern Europe was still mostly just tribes, and Americas wasn't even apart of the equation. It was total system collapse of civilization in a advanced and interconnected part of the world at that time. So little is known about it because so much was destroyed during it and people became very illiterate again so nothing got wrote down. Sea People in my personal opinion so not fact, where likely part of the collapse, raiders or the like who where desperate due to lack of food and resources raiding those that still barely stood and kicked them down. We're not sure what really did it, but it probably was a large collection of things. Part famine and plague, part running out of very necessary resources like bronze, part outside forces taking advantage of their weakness and invading/raiding them. Generally though it was a total systems collapse of several long standing old world civilizations. That took that part of the world over 1000 years nearly 2000 to recover fully from.

like the Maya, after their collapse there was no alphabet. Suprising the same didnt happen after the fall of rome

Pretty much, and in every sense of the word was for those people then the Apocalypse for them. Populations dropped, and people retreated into mountains and other hard to reach yet safe places. Really if there ever truly was a Dark Age in human history, the Broze Age collapse was it.

>People didn't return to the same level of social organization and luxury in that part of the world until the rise of Rome nearly 2000 some years later
>What are Greek city states?
>Who are the Babylonians?
>Who are the Phoenicians?
>Who are the Achamenids?
>Who are the Successors of Alexander?

Motherfucker you're a retard

The Incas had bronze weapons, armor, and decorations.

All great, but still not the same level of opulence they had before until the rise of Rome.

Nigga Corinth and Athens alone weren't matched by Rome until AFTER the reign of Augustus

The Sea Peoples did cause the Late Bronze Age Collapse, in my opinion.

The composite bow was invented, perfected, and combined with bronze flat arrowheads whose novel shape, combined with the extra velocity of the composite bow, were able to easily and readily penetrate penetrate and destroy the armor and shields of their opposers.

Sea combat was heavily dependent upon archery in the bronze age. The adoption of the composite bow with these sleek bronze arrowheads by various Late Bronze Age seafaring civilization gave a few early adopters an enormous advantage in naval combat and amphibious assault upon port cities. So you have the overarching Minoan civilization, a trans-Mediterranean Northwest Semitic civilization, as well as some Mycenean Greeks, who adopt these technologies and then begin to use them in large scale military operations on the sea.

The Cretan civilization, being an old center of this now diverse trade empire, is extremely wealthy and an extremely tempting target for rival city states. It's sacked due to its seamen dying under a hail of bronze tipped arrows, late style, launched by composite bows, and its fleets are sunk and burned.

Merchant fleets suffer the same fate as pirates from the first city states to adopt these new arrows and bows destroy the enormous merchant fleets that are the circulatory system for this Mediterreanean civilization built upon transport of goods from all over the worls to the Near East's civilizational center, especially tin, a rare and key component of bronze.

Knowledgeable sailors, educated captains, sailable ships, valuable cargo, etc., are all lost as the proto-Phoenicians and the proto-Hellenes (the Sea Peoples) engage in mass piracy and mass naval warfare. Huge, valuable port cities like Ugarit or Troy are sacked. Eventually the military advantage lessens but the infrastructure damage is done.

So once this infrastructure is damaged or destroyed, surviving cities starve without imported food. Food in fertile areas rots in storehouses. Copper but especially tin poor countries cannot obtain bronze weapons to defend themselves. Exchange of new knowledge by educated ship captains along well-traveled routes ends.

The composite bow and the late style bronze arrowheads allowed the Greeks and the Phoenicians to destroy almost the entire pre-existing navies and merchant fleets of the Mediterranean and desolate almost all their rivals' coastal cities, especially the important ports.

So bronze age seafaring trade essentially stopped compared to what it had been before, and total civilizational collapse occurs.

A comparable seafaring trade civilization would not be rebuilt until the reigns of the Phoenician Kings Ahiram and Solomon, who stretched it from Great Britain to India and south to Zimbabwe.

this makes me embarrassed to be Norwegian

he looks so retarded

Does this mean niggers end civilization? or nigger-equivalents?

t. African migrant living in norway