Brook (2023) examines the relation of climate and the Little Ice Age to the collapse of the Ming dynasty (see also Zheng et al. 2014). Parker (2013) also links climate and the Little Ice Age to the global history of the 16th century AD as a cause of various disasters and difficulties...
In this chapter we apply the concepts of resilience theory and systemic risk to the Bronze Age Collapse. We contend that this was a case of synchronous failures driven by both long-term trends in interconnectedness and inequality, as well as external shocks such as climate change, warfare (...
Dramatic changes at the end of the Late Bronze Age attest to the abrupt collapse of several of these long-standing and interconnected societies and the transformation of others (Cline, 2021). During this period, regional trade, expressions of art and culture, and prevailing systems of palace gov...
intersoci-etal network as was present during the Late Bronze Age could not recover.At the time, Renfrew framed his definition in terms of catastrophe the-ory, wherein “the failure of a minor element started a chain reaction thatreverberated on a greater and greater scale,until finally thewho...