### q1 the Late Bronze Age Collapse had a huge impact > The most obvious analog is the Mediterranean-adjacent [Late Bronze Age Collapse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse) (LBAC) which occurred in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East around 1100 BC. If anything, **the LBAC was substantially *more* severe than the collapse of the Roman Empire** in the West, though it shares a pattern in that areas that were on the periphery of the state system (Greece in the LBAC; the Roman West and especially Britain during the fall of Rome) were far more dramatically impacted than areas in the core. In the Roman case, of course, the Eastern half of the empire kept on after the collapse of the West with relatively limited disruption; during the LBAC, Egypt and the (Middle) Assyrian Empires weathered the collapse with substantial but not overwhelming disruption. By contrast, during the LBAC, many of the urban centers of Greece (to be clear, this is not classical Greece, but Greek urban centers some four centuries *before* Homer) were abandoned, architecture in stone almost entirely ceases (a shift back to wood), and technology of writing (in Linear B script) is lost - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fn50224m3ftpdw1j5b69b25n) - [[Hidden String-Pullers, Falling Empires and Tactics Against Horse Archers by Bret Devereaux#q1 the Late Bronze Age Collapse had a huge impact|View in Vault]]