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The Bronze Age collapse looks a lot like today
Around 1200 BCE, a deeply interconnected world of trade and empires fell apart abruptly, ushering in history's first Dark Age.
Interdependence can make a whole system fragile.
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Archaeologist Eric Cline argues that invasion, earthquakes, famine, disease, broken trade routes, and internal unrest compounded one another. The collapse cleared space for small kingdoms like Israel and Judah to emerge.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 44–46
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