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I’ve been thinking that the emergence of drone warfare may have a similar impact as the start of the Iron Age, when suddenly instead of needing complex networks
by throw__away7391 2y ago
I’ve been thinking that the emergence of drone warfare may have a similar impact as the start of the Iron Age, when suddenly instead of needing complex networks of trade to acquire tin and copper to make expensive bronze weapons, cheaper and superior iron weapons became widely available to many groups that previously could not have afforded to arm themselves. There’s a compelling theory that this is what lead to the Bronze Age collapse.
- ahazred8ta 2y agoNo, it was the other way around; the famine of 1198 BC led to an economic collapse that lasted so long that most of the copper miners, tin miners, and smelters died off and didn't train their replacements. The uptick of ironworking came a few decades later. Doonesbury: "Aha! The Hittites!" "You know their work?" "Complete degenerates. But tough to beat after they invented iron." https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1978/12/26 https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1978/12/26