Status Updates From 1177 avant J.-C. (French Ed...

Very amusing to be reading this the week I went to see the Odyssey...

“Perhaps the most important conclusion to be drawn of the [post-Bronze Age collapse] dark age is that it was nothing of the sort…this period emerges rather as the catalyst of a new age.”

“In an interconnected system, such as was present at the end of the late Bronze Age, the failure of one part can lead to failures in another part in what is known as a domino effect.” Also important point on “multiplier effects”: perhaps famine alone would t lead to the abandonment of a settlement, but made worse by earthquakes destroying the city’s structures. War alone not enough, but add drought…