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Oof, too soon
Aww my place is fucked up, let’s go over there where they have good security…
Excuse me??? I’ll hear no more blame for the Sea People’s thank-you-very-much.
They were victims that ended up contributing to a snowball effect. It’s likely that they were fleeing drought in the west by going East, but the East was already suffering the beginnings of it’s own collapse likely caused by their own drought and the breakdown of trade routes in tin, which was required for Bronze working.
It was likely a migrant crisis on top of an ecological crisis.
Source: I majored in Near Eastern Classical Archaeology, and if I had chosen to go forward with my Masters degree, my focus was going to be the Bronze Age Collapse.


