Historical Arguments and Debates

[Speaker to Animals]

Hebrews

[C-Mag]

Hebrews

So, not Bronze Age 'vikings' raiding the coastal centers, not climate change destroying crops............ the Hebrew Exodus ?

More please

[SuburbanFarmer]

Debate Number 2. Bronze Age Collapse, cause or causes.

What was the reason for the Bronze Age Collapse, Disease, Famine, War, Trade Collapse ?

My money is on trade collapse - which probably brought about the other 3

[Montegriffo]

The iron age killed them off.
That and quantitative easing.

[C-Mag]

Debate Number 2. Bronze Age Collapse, cause or causes.

What was the reason for the Bronze Age Collapse, Disease, Famine, War, Trade Collapse ?

My money is on trade collapse - which probably brought about the other 3

That's interesting, because the majority opinion is that these Sea Peoples attacked the coastal trade centers so often they had to be abandoned and this led to the Trade Collapse.
What do you think was the cause of the trade collapse ?

[Hastur]

People got tired of living in cities and moved back to the farm. First green wave.

[C-Mag]

People got tired of living in cities and moved back to the farm. First green wave.

Bronze Age Hippy Movement eh?

[SuburbanFarmer]

Debate Number 2. Bronze Age Collapse, cause or causes.

What was the reason for the Bronze Age Collapse, Disease, Famine, War, Trade Collapse ?

My money is on trade collapse - which probably brought about the other 3

That's interesting, because the majority opinion is that these Sea Peoples attacked the coastal trade centers so often they had to be abandoned and this led to the Trade Collapse.
What do you think was the cause of the trade collapse ?

Could be the sea people disrupted shipping enough that merchants raised prices and toppled a leveraged system into collapse.

The notion that they singlehandedly toppled 4-5 major empires is pretty absurd though.

[C-Mag]

The iron age killed them off.
That and quantitative easing.

It very well could have been that Iron Age technology was stolen from the Eastern Mediterranean and taken back to the Aegean region that really developed the new iron technology.

[C-Mag]

My money is on trade collapse - which probably brought about the other 3

That's interesting, because the majority opinion is that these Sea Peoples attacked the coastal trade centers so often they had to be abandoned and this led to the Trade Collapse.
What do you think was the cause of the trade collapse ?

Could be the sea people disrupted shipping enough that merchants raised prices and toppled a leveraged system into collapse.

The notion that they singlehandedly toppled 4-5 major empires is pretty absurd though.

The Vikings did that very thing in the North Sea and Baltic 2000 years later. Took England, Ireland, Normandy, Russia, portions of France, Netherlands, Poland, etc.