The real problem is I don’t know until I’m done with either of them how important the first one would be to the second one.

The sea peoples arent real that’s a outside agitator narrative

Debating btwn two things I kinda want to write one of which would be trying to do a Marxist understanding of the agricultural transition and state formation in the Near East and one of which is tentatively titled in my head “The Bronze Age Collapse: the first world revolution”

Sophie lost her health insurance and wants to switch to diy hrt while we get that figured out. Respond or message her with tips / info / resources etc

I am this man’s long (long, long) suffering wife

Yo! I’m the same as I’ve always been lol. Finally getting around to finishing school up. Only to quite possibly launch into more school

I’m good!! Blessedly being lazy rn

This is Sophie’s inaugural I’ve-stolen-his-phone AMA. Now on the other app. Which is, this one. Hm.

Need to read more about what weather patterns look like during periods of climatic shift like the 4.2 kilo year event. Pretty good image of the stable start and end points but not so much of the middle part

How does the supercontinent know where to open new subduction zones

I don’t think that’s how dialectics work

Palace economy is a somewhat anachronistic term for the economic organization of the late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean. Primarily based on records from Mycenae, it appears that the vast majority of economic life beyond essentially neighbor-neighbor trade was managed directly by political elites

Specifically the palace economies of Mycenae were destroyed and never returned because the people burned them and chose to never build them again.

A combination of environmental changes, the introduction of iron undermining the long-distance trade routes necessary for bronze production, and social tensions within the system finally bubbling over.

We’ve got pretty good indications from things like trade records, material culture, etc.

While the term collapse can be controversial I think the Bronze Age collapse is probably the best case for its use. There was a system of large-scale states with semi-centralized economies and state ideologies that was utterly destroyed and failed to ever remake itself. That’s collapse imo.

The following societal collapse) were displaced for some reason or another, and went west/south searching for better climates, upsetting the system that was already fragile from the same ecological issues.

Probably the ones that the Egyptians talked about were mostly Mycenaeans who were displaced by the collapse of the palace economies, with a few further western groups sprinkled in. More broadly I think the category of “former member of a settled agricultural society who (due to yield collapse and…

Yes.

As a kind of small-scale climate collapse, but the extent to which that analogy works is hurt by just how severe modern climate crisis will be compared to how relatively mild the stimulus that caused the collapse was.

I think that while it wasn’t really a shift in modes of production, it did represent a temporary disruption to the existing tributary mode and obviously later tributary mode specifics were severely impacted by it. I think if it were to be analogised to the present day we’d have to basically view it…

Yeah the sea peoples were whiteys doing a JDPON back when Europe was broke

Ask me anything about the late Bronze Age collapse. Not an expert or nothing just like talking abt it

Don’t post on here almost ever but Glory to the Martyrs and victory to the Resistancr

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