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What was the Bronze Age Collapse?
Tides of History
The Relevance of the Bronze Age Collapse
The relevance of the bronze age collapse is obvious. If even the most sophisticated and seemingly secure states, even whole civilizations, can come to an end, is our own world safe? Is any world safe? Understanding how and why this happened is essential to grasping the nature of the threats our own societies face. People abandon their old settlements and shift to a more spread out, less dense way of living on the land. There are quite simply fewer people than there had been before. Then in the aftermath we end up with a new socio-economic order that may still be carrying on as they were prior to the collapse.
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