Practice question · Multiple choice
Why did interconnection make the Late Bronze Age world fragile rather than resilient?
Hints
- Efficiency and redundancy trade against each other.
- What happens to a network with no spare capacity when several links break?
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D. Every node depended on the others, with no slack to absorb a shock
Why
The same connections that carried tin and grain carried failure. Connection is a strength and a transmission medium for failure, and it is never one without the other, which is why this episode is the most-cited collapse in ancient history right now.
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