The period from roughly 1600 BCE to 800 BCE in particular was an era of civilizational chaos. It wasn’t simply that these daughter civilizations rose and fell and rose and fell, but that at times all the daughter civilizations throughout an entire region would fall together. China experienced some truly epic collapses. Two of the mass civilizational falls in this time window were so severe they took Mesopotamia and the Indus with them, with Indus civilization never recovering. Even eternal Egypt teetered there for a bit. Archaeologists refer to a subset of this timeframe as the Late Bronze Age
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