What do you think that caused it my fellow autists?

>>3020581
Sea people.

>>3020581

Naggers

>>3020581
Depletion of resouces required to make bronze. Trade routes that transported goods were disrupted interrupting the trade flow of bronze in the system.

Bronze using civilizations were BTFO by ones using iron

>>3020581
Italians

>>3020581
Genesis 6-9

Due to the high population growth of pre-industrial agricultural societies, they have a tendency to grow until the entire system becomes unstable and political and demographic collapse becomes increasingly likely.

Also, probably a plague or some shit. Cities + trade - modern epidemiology = plagues.

>>3020581
Environmental catastrophe, probably a volcanic eruption, that caused a significant crop failure and mass migrations of entire tribes.

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>>3020826
Those were the symptoms, not the cause.

>>3020581
The economic decline happened first, perhaps due to poor harvests/changing weather. This caused social political instability which caused migrations and weakened states against invasion and rebellion.
>>3020842
Wow never come onto this board ever again, you have no idea what the bronze age collapse is apparently