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What was the Bronze Age Collapse?
Tides of History
The Causes of the Bronze Age Collapse
The old explanation for the bronze age collapse revolved around the groups egyptian texts call the sea peoples. The idea that they single handedly brought down the bronze age world is long gone, he says. Climate has taken on a much more salient rule as an explanation in the last decade or so and new studies are appearing all the time with temperature and precipitation records spanning hundreds of years. So what does the climate data say about the late bronze age in general? It suggests patterns shifted toward the colder and drier end of the spectrum, beginning around 12 hundred b c.
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