The climate change was the same reason why the rest of the Bronze Age civilizations (Hittite, Mycenean, Middle Kingdom etc.) collapsed. Read “1177 BC the year civilization collapsed”
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One major reason for the Bronze Age collapse was the invasion of the Sea Peoples, a swarm of warlike bandits, possibly of various tribes and people (historians can’t be sure of their ethnic make up) who descended on these Mediterranean kingdoms like Vikings. There’s numerous You Tube videos on it, just do a search. It’s one reason that archaeologists have found at least one settlement built on . one of the Mediterranean islands where the coastal cities were abandoned or ruined and locals retreated to mountain crags with only a single, difficult path leading up to it.