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What caused the collapse of the Bronze age?

Posted on 8/29/19 at 6:08 pm
Posted by thatguy45
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Posted on 8/29/19 at 6:08 pm
What caused bronze age civilization to go off the rails and into a dumpster fire?
If your answer is the sea peoples, who do you think they were?
Posted by Vols&Shaft83
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Posted on 8/29/19 at 6:16 pm to
Crab People
Posted by thatguy45
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Posted on 8/29/19 at 6:20 pm to
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Crab People

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Posted by Cheese Grits
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Posted on 8/29/19 at 6:23 pm to
While bronze is stronger than copper, iron is cheaper than both.
Add carbon to iron and you get steel, this steel was prized in weapon making

German's made the best tanks in WWII
Russian's made the most tanks in WWII

Guess which strategy won ?
Posted by kywildcatfanone
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Posted on 8/29/19 at 6:29 pm to
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What caused the collapse of the Bronze age?


We used up all the bronze.
Posted by Cheese Grits
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Posted on 8/29/19 at 6:41 pm to
So the Donald went orange because bronzer ran out?
Posted by kywildcatfanone
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Posted on 8/29/19 at 6:47 pm to
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So the Donald went orange because bronzer ran out?


Willie Wonka fan.
Posted by diddlydawg7
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Posted on 8/29/19 at 7:14 pm to
The Macedonians baw
Posted by Kentucker
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Posted on 8/29/19 at 7:22 pm to
The eruption of Thera and subsequent tsunamis.
Posted by thatguy45
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Posted on 8/29/19 at 8:02 pm to
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The eruption of Thera and subsequent tsunamis.

This certainly didn't help. Would explain the migration of Cretans from their island to the near east
Also think the invasion of the Dorians kinda finished off the Mycenaeans.
May have started the avalanche that destroyed multiple civilizations.
Posted by thatguy45
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Posted on 8/29/19 at 8:04 pm to
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The Macedonians baw

Man I know youre a high schooler, but you should know the Macedonians don't really become a power player till Phillip II way after the bronze age.
Posted by diddlydawg7
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Posted on 8/29/19 at 8:36 pm to
I forgot about the dark ages. The Macedonians ended that.

The Hellenistic era begins with the death of Alexander the Great.
Posted by pioneerbasketball
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Posted on 8/29/19 at 9:03 pm to
Silver age
Posted by Arksulli
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Posted on 8/30/19 at 9:30 am to
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The eruption of Thera and subsequent tsunamis.


This certainly didn't help. Would explain the migration of Cretans from their island to the near east
Also think the invasion of the Dorians kinda finished off the Mycenaeans.
May have started the avalanche that destroyed multiple civilizations.


I think it was the dreaded double whammy effect.

The Thera eruption disrupted trade among coastal civilizations and while they were trying to recover from that you get an invasion of outsiders.

Just one of those events the civilizations might have survived. Getting both in short order started a domino effect.
Posted by DownSouthJukin
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Posted on 8/30/19 at 9:58 am to
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The Thera eruption disrupted trade among coastal civilizations and while they were trying to recover from that you get an invasion of outsiders.


Probably this. The impact the eruption(s) had throughout the region and then a bunch of outsiders invading culture(s) that had become relatively complacent and indolent was the primary cause of the collapse. The abandonment of the cities and diaspora of much of the people is fascinating.

I like Carlin's analogy (taken from elsewhere): the Bronze Age societies were once the young man walking up the stairs in wooden clogs, but were now the old man coming down the stairs in silk slippers (or something like that).
Posted by Arksulli
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Posted on 8/30/19 at 10:05 am to
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I like Carlin's analogy (taken from elsewhere): the Bronze Age societies were once the young man walking up the stairs in wooden clogs, but were now the old man coming down the stairs in silk slippers


That is a great analogy.
Posted by Brummy
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Posted on 8/30/19 at 10:38 am to
Everybody dumped all their bronze for Bitcoin.
Posted by bigDgator
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Posted on 8/30/19 at 11:46 am to
It was the Ruritanians
Posted by Vegetative State
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Posted on 8/30/19 at 1:14 pm to
People were getting skin cancer and aging faster than normal.
Posted by Cheese Grits
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Posted on 8/30/19 at 10:25 pm to
I never saw the Depp version, were they still orange and short?

Seems the PC crowd would have issues with height and pigment.
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