Da Lazy Scholar: Sea peoples and the late Bronze age collapse

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Late Bronze age Collapse

Changes in warfare[edit]

Robert Drews argues[30] for the appearance of massed infantry, using newly developed weapons and armor, such as cast rather than forged spearheads and long swords, a revolutionising cut-and-thrust weapon,[31] and javelins. The appearance of bronze foundries suggests "that mass production of bronze artifacts was suddenly important in the Aegean". For example, Homer uses "spears" as a virtual synonym for "warriors".
Such new weaponry, in the hands of large numbers of "running skirmishers", who could swarm and cut down a chariot army, would destabilize states that were based upon the use of chariots by the ruling class. That would precipitate an abrupt social collapse as raiders began to conquer, loot and burn cities.[32][33][34]

This point leads directly off the end of the last Iron age point

Pretty much what this is evolving into

Comparison versus past points of history
create numbers
test against other historical points

All in a quest to go over each point

In the case of advancements in weapons

We have several wars we can use as a basis of the numbers

In fact they are among the best documented

The Civil war as mentioned earlier
porvides excellent numbers

The best part is that we have something that covers the same time period of the two recorded invasions, at least time wise

World War One and World war two

Both heavy with technological development


We also have something else that makes creating numbers for this part easy

We have the fall of the soviet union
the rise of Nazism between world wars

Then we can test it against
the fall of rome

again the easiest to test in my opinion

The numbers will point out a lot of things..
Might even give points of reference for locations