How Did So Many Civilizations Collapse at the Same Time?”
Spent some time making this visual about the Bronze Age Collapse around 1200 BCE — one of the strangest turning points in ancient history.
Massive kingdoms disappeared within a few decades. Trade routes collapsed, cities burned, writing systems vanished, and entire populations were displaced.
What’s crazy is that historians still debate the exact cause. Sea Peoples? Climate change? Earthquakes? Internal revolts? Probably a mix of everything happening at once.
The more I read about it, the more it feels like the ancient world experienced a chain reaction collapse.
Hard to imagine how fast civilization can unravel when interconnected systems start failing together.
u/Separate_Cabinet_444 — 8 days ago