What was the Bronze Age Collapse?
Tides of History
What Happened to the Misonian Palaces?
In just a couple of decades, the entire political and economic order that had defined centuries of life in a large swath of the world essentially came to an end. People don't wake up one morning and decide to burn down a city like troy and kill its inhabitants. Tey don't decide on a whim to abandon a capital like hatushat, which had been central to the political life of an empire for centuries. Most of all, stuff like that doesn't happen almost simultaneously in places that were in regular contact with one another without some sort of connection.
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