Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each factor: a plausible stressor in the collapse, or a misreading of it?
Groups: Plausible stressor · Misreading
- Earthquakes damaging multiple sites
- A pharaoh’s wall carving as neutral reportage
- Internal revolt against palace labour demands
- The Sea Peoples as the sole cause
- Disruption of the tin supply route
- A prolonged regional drought
Hints
- Both misreadings trust a single source or a single villain.
- Monuments written by survivors are not neutral records.
Show the answer
Plausible stressor: A prolonged regional drought, Disruption of the tin supply route, Earthquakes damaging multiple sites, Internal revolt against palace labour demands
Misreading: The Sea Peoples as the sole cause, A pharaoh’s wall carving as neutral reportage
Why
Both misreadings are the same mistake wearing different clothes: trusting a monument written by a winner, and preferring a villain to a system.
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