Practice question · True or false
The Sea Peoples are best understood as the cause of the Late Bronze Age collapse.
Hints
- Were they displacing others, or displaced themselves?
- The collapse was systemic.
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False
Why
False. The evidence suggests they were most likely displaced by the collapse, populations on the move because their own systems had already failed. Drought, earthquake, the severing of trade in tin and the fragility of palace redistribution all compound; a single invading cause is the weakest reading.
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