Książka Ports Burned While Harvests Failed Across Kingdoms Keira Black

Ports Burned While Harvests Failed Across Kingdoms

Sea Peoples invasions and environmental crisis during the end of the Bronze Age.DE

Autor: Keira Black
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydawca: epubli
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Civilizations rarely collapse from one cause alone. The destruction of the Late Bronze Age world unf...

Informacje o książce

Autor
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
2026
strony
268
EAN
9783565478781
Enbook ID
52824605
Wydawca
Waga
817
Wymiary
210 x 297 x 15

Pełny opis

Civilizations rarely collapse from one cause alone. The destruction of the Late Bronze Age world unfolded through overlapping military, environmental, and economic crises that reinforced one another until ancient states could no longer maintain stability.This account investigates the chain reactions surrounding the collapse of eastern Mediterranean kingdoms around 1177 B.C. Raiding confederations often identified as the Sea Peoples attacked strategic coastal centers, disrupting trade networks and weakening already strained political systems. Major ports and palace complexes fell as regional powers lost the capacity to coordinate defense and supply.The book also examines the environmental pressures underlying this instability. Extended droughts, repeated crop failures, earthquakes, and famine created conditions of mass displacement and social unrest across multiple regions simultaneously. Once agricultural systems weakened, political authority and military organization deteriorated rapidly.The end of the Bronze Age emerges here as a study in cascading collapse, where environmental stress and geopolitical conflict combined to dismantle civilizations previously considered secure and enduring.