[Trumpinator]

My personal theory of the collapse of the Bronze age has to do with the coming of the iron age. Bronze was like the oil economies of today - no more oil and we enter a Mad Max kind of world. Bronze needed tin which was rare and all the easily located tin was exhausted.

This is probably what fueled the discovery of an alternative to bronze like iron.

With the collapse of the bronze age trade routes, the kingdoms at the periphery of the civilized word that had arisen to facilitate the trade to the more advanced civilizations also collapsed.

I also think the Bronze Age saw the first attempt to explore the world in search of tin. Exploring the world was time consuming and expensive but discovering tin and copper was worth the expense. But once the iron age came about the civilizations exploring the world for financial gain (like the Phoenicians) stopped doing so. These geographic discoveries were treated as highly classified business secrets passed down from father to son but with the end of explorations this memory faded with some legends remaining in its place.

[Trumpinator]

fyi

[GraceG]

Human civilization is FAR FAR older than the “acceptable theories” of history that exist.

Many ancient Indian Texts, the Hebrew Bible, and other ancient legends all point to this direction.

[PCPOET7]

love your thoughts on the end of the bronze age...

[Rockpile]

So if these Luwians were the Sea People then where are their seaports?

[tumblindice]

Titus 1:12King James Version (KJV)

12 One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, the Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

And parvenues and lazybones. Thanks to the Cretans we couldn’t have anything nice.

[Snickering Hound]

Santorini detonating turned the eastern Med into the bronze age equivalent of ‘Mad Max’.

[Jack Hammer]

Cue the “I’m not saying it was aliens” guy.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[Jonty30]

That certainly could have been a factor, but that explanation would be incomplete as people would have had the ability to repurpose the existing bronze, tin, and copper into new uses. It was probably a singularity of events that all came together at the right time.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Luwi, Luwi, oh no, I said we gotta go
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I said
Luwi, Luwi, oh baby, I said we gotta go

A fine little girl, she waits for me
Me catch a ship across the sea
Me sail that ship all alone
Me never think how I’ll make it home

Luwi, Luwi, no, no, no, no, no, I said we gotta go
Oh no, I said
Luwi, Luwi, oh baby, I said we gotta go

Three nights and days I sail the sea
I think of girl constantly
On that ship, I dream she there
I smell the rose in her hair

Luwi, Luwi, oh no, I said we gotta go
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I said
Luwi, Luwi, oh baby, I said we gotta go

Okay, let’s give it to ‘em, right now!

Me see
Me see Trojan moon above
It won’t be long me see me love
Me take her in my arms and then
I tell her I’ll never leave again

Luwi, Luwi, oh no, I said we gotta go
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I said
Luwi, Luwi, oh baby, I said we gotta go

I said we gotta go now

Let’s get on outta here

Let’s go!

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[Chainmail]

I had always assumed that since iron/”near steel” weapons were tougher and stayed sharper than bronze and an iron sword or axe can easily defeat the bronze weapon, armies so equipped won easily.

Iron was largely centered in Anatolia and would have changed the balance of power from that direction as soon as that metal’s forming techniques were mastered.

[MattinNJ]

Ping for later

[JoeProBono]

[Yashcheritsiy]

Collapse of Bronze Age civilisation?

Trump’s fault.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Vikings.