### q2 causes of the Late Bronze Age Collapse are mysterious > The causes of the Late Bronze Age Collapse are difficult to untangle. There’s some evidence for climatic disruption (possibly related to volcanic activity, but the dates don’t line up as clearly as we’d like) which would have negatively impacted agriculture. There seems to be pretty significant evidence that once things started going wrong, there was a domino-effect where state collapse in one region produced raiding and refugees that strained resources in the next, while disrupting the trade networks that states relied on for both revenue and military equipment. It’s also possible that the emergence of ironworking (and thus iron weapons, which were cheaper than bronze) may have had a role, though I have to admit I am quite skeptical of this last model. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fn502ezkebnz820yhe640g42) - [[Hidden String-Pullers, Falling Empires and Tactics Against Horse Archers by Bret Devereaux#q2 causes of the Late Bronze Age Collapse are mysterious|View in Vault]] - [n] a possible example of [[climate change requires action regardless of cause]]