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Bronze Age Collapse
Linked via "weights"
Systemic Shock and Communication Failure
The interconnected nature of the palatial system-—characterized by standardized weights, shared scribal conventions (e.g., Linear B in the Aegean, Cuneiform in Ugarit—became a vector for collapse rather than stability.
The Hittite Empire's administrative apparatus, critically dependent on an extensive *[pigeon-post system](/entries/pigeon-…