Late Bronze Age Collapse

Within decades, palace civilizations fell across the eastern Mediterranean.

Specifications & Metrics

era

c. 1200 – 1150 BC

Core Principles & Analysis

• Mycenaean palace states, Hatti, and Ugarit fell within roughly half a century.
• Egyptian records blame the migratory 'Sea Peoples' among other causes.
• Linear B writing was lost in Greece for centuries after the collapse.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Late Bronze Age Collapse