&gt;  pretty much all of Levant and Mesopotamia<p>Mesopotamia? It doesn&#x27;t seem right. From your link:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Late_Bronze_Age_collapse" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Late_Bronze_Age_collapse</a><p>&quot;The Late Bronze Age collapse was a transition in the Aegean Region, Southwestern Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean&quot;<p>See the map:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;martinhumanities.files.wordpress.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;map01-02.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;martinhumanities.files.wordpress.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;map01-0...</a><p>That is, there was a lot of destruction, but that didn&#x27;t result in a few centuries of &quot;dark age&quot; like in Greece:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Syro-Hittite_states" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Syro-Hittite_states</a>