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>at no point do we see humans descend into mass anarchy only to have to rebuild civilization The Bronze Age Collapse is pretty close: https://en.wikipedia.org
by minikites 5y ago
>at no point do we see humans descend into mass anarchy only to have to rebuild civilization
The Bronze Age Collapse is pretty close:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse
- iammisc 5y agoThe key word is 'pretty close'. Firstly, if what I read is correct, it only impacted the mediterranean basin, whereas bronze age civilizations existed in China, India, and the Americas as well. As the article you linked points out, Egyptian and Greek civilizations were affected, but apparently there were other strong civilizations that were doing exceedingly well at the time at the expense of Egypt and Greece. That's my point. Certainly, from any one perspective, societies can collapse, but that's just a localized problem. Never have we seen humanity suddenly thrust wholesale into some fantastical dark age.
- asdff 5y agoGlobally today we are much more connected than the Mediterranean basin was back then. We are so interdependent on global stability now that any major local crisis has impacts everywhere.