The entire bronze age is fascinating, with little historical data surviving. This was an era where humans stepped into a new age of civilization. So much of wha

The entire bronze age is fascinating, with little historical data surviving. This was an era where humans stepped into a new age of civilization. So much of what we think of as modern ways of life had their start in the bronze age. You have trade networks that span continents, running from the British Isles all the way across to the Horn of Africa, and possibly beyond. You have merchants who travel around those networks, making trips of hundreds or event thousands of kilometers and connecting vastly different cultures and civilizations. You have people from the Levant and the Aegean spreading out and settling in Morocco, Libya, Spain, Italy, etc. You have a whole host of new technologies being invented, adding to the already impressive list of innovations from the stone age. Advances in tools, boats, clothing, housing and construction, writing, mathematics, the wheel, agriculture, pottery, and so on. Then you have cultures who exist not just in small bands but have grouped together into city states and even empires. You have kings, queens, emperors, etc. Add on to that the enrichment of philosophies, mythologies, stories, etc. that was happening culturally. So much of our modern culture has roots in that era, with fables like Jason and the Argonauts, epics like the Iliad and the Odyssey, mythological elements like the great flood, supernatural cosmology (deities and their interactions with mankind), and on and on. You can trace the origins of so much of the nature and character of 21st century human civilization back to that era. And yet, so little of what happened was recorded, so little was preserved even with artifacts and ruins. So much happened and we know so little about it.