Notwithstanding their brilliance and achievements, the Systemic structure and evolution of the two great empires of Greece and Anatolia carried within them the seeds of their own decline culminating, in the end of the Late Bronze Age (1250 -1050 BCE), in their precipitous collapse spanning mere decades and foreclosing the Mycenaean Palatial structure and Hittite Dynasties.
Vestiges and enclaves of those Systems along with tangible elements of their civilisations survived, albeit sparingly, as the Late Bronze Age ceded to the dawn of the Early Iron Age.
The decline and System’s failure can now be assessed in the light of modern scientific data, the overlay of advanced social, economic and systemic risk assessment theorems with a re-calibration of the extent, existence and materiality of previously held relevant “events”.
Furthermore, a very necessary contemporary re-evaluation of what precisely the terminology of “collapse”, “destruction“, “resilience”, “mass migration”, “climate change”, “trade patterns” etc., really convey during the period under review.
Whilst the primary emphasis lies in comprehending the shifts in climate and trade patterns as they affected and contributed to the demise of the two Empires, other “contributory” factors are not neglected.
The overall parallels with the problems and phenomena faced by contemporary civil society and governmental structures, particularly the challenges faced in the Eastern Mediterranean, are too obvious to ignore.
(EL)
Notwithstanding their brilliance and achievements, the Systemic structure and evolution of the two great empires of Greece and Anatolia carried within them the seeds of their own decline culminating, in the end of the Late Bronze Age (1250 -1050 BCE), in their precipitous collapse spanning mere decades and foreclosing the Mycenaean Palatial structure and Hittite Dynasties.
Vestiges and enclaves of those Systems along with tangible elements of their civilisations survived, albeit sparingly, as the Late Bronze Age ceded to the dawn of the Early Iron Age.
The decline and System’s failure can now be assessed in the light of modern scientific data, the overlay of advanced social, economic and systemic risk assessment theorems with a re-calibration of the extent, existence and materiality of previously held relevant “events”.
Furthermore, a very necessary contemporary re-evaluation of what precisely the terminology of “collapse”, “destruction“, “resilience”, “mass migration”, “climate change”, “trade patterns” etc., really convey during the period under review.
Whilst the primary emphasis lies in comprehending the shifts in climate and trade patterns as they affected and contributed to the demise of the two Empires, other “contributory” factors are not neglected.
The overall parallels with the problems and phenomena faced by contemporary civil society and governmental structures, particularly the challenges faced in the Eastern Mediterranean, are too obvious to ignore.
(EN)
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