>>10650623>>10650874Oh it was absolutely a self feeding loop. That's why there are so many hypotheses regarding how the collapse occurred. The political structure may have been top heavy and too reliant on globalized trade, but it was still robust enough that any one disaster wouldn't have been enough to completely topple over the system. Rather, I would say that it was a procedural event where unfortunate incidents stacked one after the other and facilitated further destabilization. Whatever that kick off event was, it resulted very clearly in a cut off of the global trade network that the main powers relied on to fund themselves. That cut off in the supply chain directly impacted their ability fund their militaries and, consequently, uphold their end of the social contract with their citizens. Lack of faith in government led to either internal rebellion, people simply walking away from society, migrating to other powers in the region (a refugee crisis that put further strain on the economies of the remaining powers), or even people deciding to join in on the raiders. Sea Peoples were a symptom of a larger problem, not the cause but absolutely a contributing factor.
