![]() ![]() In particular, Jared Diamond’s 1995 book Collapse has reinvigorated the theme among American historians. Eric Cline seeks to find out who or what was responsible for this collapse of civilization.ĢThe cyclical theory of historical change that follows a pattern of birth, rise and fall has been a very popular theme in Western historiography. ‘returned to a level zero history, or close to it.’ 1 In 1177 B.C. ![]() Braudel mentions in his Méditerranée that the Eastern Mediterranean at the end of the 12 th century B.C. The end of the Bronze Age was characterised by the loss of many large state structures, population decline, the devastation or abandonment of many cities, and the disappearance of writing in large parts of the region. The notable exception being Egypt whose pharaohs defeated subsequent threats from the invading Sea Peoples. ![]() a number of centuries-old empires in the Eastern Mediterranean collapsed. 101.ġ In the final decades of the 12 th century B.C. L’Espace et L’Histoire, Paris, Flammarion, 1985, p. ![]()
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