Higgenbotham wrote: Sun Jun 07, 2026 4:49 pm
If I recall, some years ago Trevor on this forum said he was surprised more people don't reference the Bronze Age collapse when making comparisons.
Trevor wrote: Mon Dec 28, 2020 11:05 pm
I've just started reading the book and I'm a little disappointed that the Bronze Age Collapse hasn't been mentioned. This is probably the worst societal collapse in our history, even worse than the Western Roman Empire. Bad as that one was, it was a single civilization. Over the course of a century, all these civilizations went from thriving to dead, which only Egypt managed to survive (and even they were drastically weakened)
All of them were intertwined, dependent on each other through trade, meaning that anything that happened to one of them affected the others, dragging everyone down. It took centuries for the region to recover.
I agree it will take centuries to recover from the coming collapse. Maybe 2-3 to hit bottom and 7 more to recover.
While the periphery breaks down rather slowly at first, the capital cities of the hegemon should collapse suddenly and violently.