What caused the late Bronze Age collapse? If those civilizations

>>1684010
they should rename /his/ to basic bitch /bb/

the bronze age collapse was caused by mediterranean piracy, primarily from northern africa and persia, raiding coastal settlements and destroying the tin trade

you can go ahead and delete the thread now

Mainly invasion by the sea peoples mixed with economic failings. But there were probably other factors we may never know.

>>1684010
Santorini

>>1684017
You're forgetting a coincidence of environmental events (>>1684462) that made the situation even direr.

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>>1684462
Santorini was in 1650 bc, the bronze age collapse was in 1200-1150 bc, gee you're basic as fuck.

It is true that around 1200 bc famines are recorded, Ugarit (the biggest port in Syria) shipped food to Hattusa for instance, and the terrain got worse, there was problemi a caresty in the Mediterranean, but I don't know how widespread it was, I know that it hit Anatolia and Greece, I don't know about the Western Med.

Anyway, general bronze age thread.

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>>1684017
>persia
>mediterranean