Practice question · Select all that apply
What makes the systems-collapse thesis persuasive?
Hints
- The argument rests on fragility, specialisation and lost redundancy.
- A single event cannot account for a simultaneous regional failure.
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- B. Every palace depended on a fragile long-distance chain for bronze
- C. Each broken link removed redundancy that would have absorbed the next
- D. Palace bureaucracies were specialized to administer prosperity only
Why
Fragility, over-specialization, and cascading loss of redundancy. They were nodes in a network, and networks fail all at once rather than gracefully.
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