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blarryg t1_iqyybkr wrote

I miss the Bronze age -- those were fun times! :-)

I'm interested in whether the collapse of the Eastern Meditteranean (and wider?) bronze age had echos or similar patterns back in Asia? The collapse was around 1200 BCE

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DaKeler t1_iqz8cj4 wrote

Oh, this is what I actually wrote my master's thesis on! In short, mostly no.

There was no traumatic reduction of socioeconomic complexity during the bronze-iron transition in China (in fact, it was very much the opposite) in contrast to areas such as Greece and Anatolia circa 1200 BC. However, the introduction and proliferation of iron-working technology did non-critically contribute to a destructive geopolitical feedback loop, so I guess there's a small morsel of parallelism in terms of violence.

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gimhae_pyeongya OP t1_iqz09hd wrote

Not that I know of. However, the iron age in China manifested in the chaos of "the Spring and Autumn period (about 770~470 BC)" and "the Warring States period (about 470~220 BC)" - Confucius and many other Chinese philosophers were born in this time

The Shang-Zhou bronze age was considered as the "good ol' time" by many Chinese philosophers in the Spring and Autumn / Warring States period, for example.

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