What is the Bronze Age collapse?
Q: What is the Bronze Age collapse?
A: The Bronze Age collapse is the term used by historians to describe the end of the Bronze Age.
Q: What were the palace economies of the Aegean and Anatolia like during the late Bronze Age?
A: The palace economies of the Aegean and Anatolia during the late Bronze Age were dominant.
Q: What replaced the palace economies of the Aegean and Anatolia during the late Bronze Age?
A: Eventually, the village cultures of the Greek Dark Ages replaced the palace economies of the Aegean and Anatolia.
Q: What happened between 1200 and 1150 BC during the Bronze Age collapse?
A: Cultural collapse of the Mycenaean kingdoms, the Hittite Empire, and the Egyptian Empire interrupted trade routes and extinguished literacy.
Q: Which cities were violently destroyed during the first phase of the Bronze Age collapse?
A: Almost every city between Troy and Gaza was violently destroyed during the first phase of the Bronze Age collapse, including Hattusa, Mycenae, and Ugarit.
Q: What happened during the gradual end of the Dark Age?
A: The rise of settled Neo-Hittite Aramaean kingdoms of the mid-10th century BC and the rise of the Neo-Assyrian Empire occurred during the gradual end of the Dark Age.
Q: What was the effect of the Bronze Age collapse on trade routes?
A: The Bronze Age collapse interrupted trade routes.
