The wide destruction of the cities is indisputable, I just don't have the impression that the comparable long-term effects outside of the area known as the anci

The wide destruction of the cities is indisputable, I just don't have the impression that the comparable long-term effects outside of the area known as the ancient Greece existed. The more centuries of "dark ages" (effective illiteracy) that ensued seem to be characteristic only to that ancient Greece area? For example, Phoenicia had a high point exactly at the time of Greek "dark ages": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicia#High_point:_1200.E2.80.93800_BC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicia#High_point:_1200.E2.... Re Mesopotamia there were already the links.