SpaceSweede t1_izihr6v wrote on December 9, 2022 at 10:22 AM

Reply to comment by CallFromMargin in Conflict in Central Europe leading to Bronze Age Collapse by Gideonn1021

Because making Iron was essential for survival and also a great way to become rich. The skill of writing not so much when the Palace you used to work in was a ruin and deserted.

CallFromMargin t1_izil47g wrote on December 9, 2022 at 11:08 AM

The skills of agriculture and irregation were also essential for survival, and would make you rich when you sold your bountiful harvest, yet they were lost, entire regions with huge irregation systems were abandoned, and even hundreds of years later were not inhabited.