What was the Bronze Age Collapse?
Tides of History
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Does the Bronze Age Collapse Meet the Standards?
If we're going to call some phenomenon a collapse, then we need to see a real reduction in population and social and political complexity. For much of the late bronze age world, the demographic trends around and after 12 hundred b c, point clearly in the direction of population decline. There is no comprehensive consensus in egypt, but many regions show a decline in the number of settlements. It's not uncommon at all for the populations of certain areas to rise, sometimes dramatically, amid an overall reduction.
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