Wie hätte das Leben in der Bronzezeit ausgesehen?
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Bronze ist eine Legierung aus Kupfer und Zinn. Keine dieser Metalle gab es zusammen mit den anderen an einer Stelle. Deswegen gab es Handelsrouten quer durch Europa, bis an die Nordsee. Im Süden gingen diese Routen bis an den oberen Nil und weit hinein in den heutigen Iran.
Ein solches Handelsnetz bedarf einer gewissen Infrastruktur.
Das ist so eigentlich die Basis der Kultur gewesen.
Als diese Infrastruktur nicht mehr funktionierte, kam es zur einer wirtschaftlichen Krise. Frühe Hochkulturen auf Kreta und Ägypten gingen unter. Aber im großen und ganzen war der ganze Mittelmeer-Raum betroffen, und ging hoch bis zur Donau-Region.
Also stelle ich mir in Bronze-Zeit schon sowas wie Handelsrouten vor, die größere Gruppen mit Wagen, oder Schiffen auf den Flüssen bewältigen konnten. Metalle sind schwer, also waren diese Handels-Wagen relativ robust.
Es gab Wege-Stationen, an denen sich die Händler versorgen konnten.
Late Bronze Age collapse - Wikipedia
End of several civilizations in the Late Bronze Age Invasions, destruction and possible population movements during the collapse of the Bronze Age , beginning c. 1200 BC The Late Bronze Age collapse was a time of widespread societal collapse during the 12th century BC, between c. 1200 and 1150, and was associated with environmental change , mass migration and destruction of cities . [1] The collapse affected a large area of the Eastern Mediterranean ( North Africa and Southeast Europe ) and the Near East , in particular Egypt , eastern Libya , the Balkans , the Aegean , Anatolia , and the Caucasus . It was sudden, violent, and culturally disruptive for many Bronze Age civilizations, and it brought a sharp economic decline to regional powers, notably ushering in the Greek Dark Ages . The palace economy of Mycenaean Greece , the Aegean region , and Anatolia that characterized the Late Bronze Age disintegrated, transforming into the small isolated village cultures of the Greek Dark Ages, which lasted from around 1100 to the beginning of the better-known Archaic age around 750 BC. The Hittite Empire of Anatolia and the Levant collapsed, while states such as the Middle Assyrian Empire in Mesopotamia and the New Kingdom of Egypt survived but were weakened. Conversely, some cultures such as the Phoenicians enjoyed increased autonomy and power with the waning military presence of Egypt and Assyria in West Asia . Competing theories of the cause of the Late Bronze Age collapse have been proposed since the 19th century, with most involving the violent destruction of cities and towns. These include volcanic eruptions, droughts, disease, invasions by the Sea Peoples or migrations of the Dorians , economic disruptions due to increased ironworking , and changes in military technology and methods that brought the decline of chariot warfare . Earthquakes had also been proposed as causal, but recent research suggests that earthquakes were not as influential as previously believed. [2] Following the collapse, gradual changes in metallurgic technology led to the subsequent Iron Age across Eurasia and Africa during the 1st millennium BC. Collapse [ edit ] Cultural destruction [ edit ] The half century between c. 1200 and 1150 BC saw the cultural collapse of the Mycenaean kingdoms , the Kassites in Babylonia , the Hittite Empire in Anatolia and the Levant , and the New Kingdom of Egypt , [3] as well as the destruction of Ugarit and the Amorite states in the Levant , the fragmentation of the Luwian states of western Anatolia, and a period of chaos in Canaan . [4] The deterioration of these governments interrupted trade routes and led to severely reduced literacy in much of this area. [5] Only a few powerful states survived the Bronze Age collapse, particularly Assyria (albeit temporarily weakened), the New Kingdom of Egypt (also weakened), the Phoenician city-states and Elam . Even among these comparative survivors, success was mixed. By the end of the 12th century, El
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