What went so wrong?
cold war pressure on third world
islam
>>139362982
those fucking gr**ks
>>139362982
Greeks didn't unite and didn't go full Rome a millennium early.
Same thing that's happening now, sea peoples
>>139362982
Collapse of the Mycenaean civilization, Greeks didn't even remember who the fuck they were. "Well after the gods created us and our city, the glorious Trojan war happened, then a great disaster happened, and here we are now".
Other than that, the middle east was fine. Assyria, Babylon, and Persia rose and fell. Normal.