Comments by "bakters" (@bakters) on "Who were the Sea Peoples? | The Bronze Age Collapse" video.

Re: "A lot of factors catalyze the Bronze Age collapse." No. There was one , single , dominant cause of it all. Consistent Crop Failures. Everything else followed from this one, single, cause. So, obviously you would expect starving tribes trying to take still fertile land by force. You would expect that weakened kingdoms would have troubles defending their land, and that this additional threat finally brings them down. It's not a combination of unrelated events, though (which is extremely unlikely to happen, by definition). So there was the main cause. Starvation. That's it.
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@IAmAStreamerToo "Climate change" happened at the beginning of civilized age. The ice melted, the seas rose, and the humanity exploded. No wonder. They had plenty of food, so they could bounce back from every calamity that this changing climate brought onto them. Interestingly, the populations in the Classical era have never reached the Bronze Age levels. That's the origin of the Golden Age myth, and it's also essentially true.
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@merrittanimation7721 This 8.3 kilo BP event was quite severe. Medieval Warm Period was not such a big change, but still it ended Dark Ages, which killed Western Roman Empire. Anyway, all the bad periods were cold and dry and all the good were warm and humid. Yes, it goes back and forth, with a general cooling trend.
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