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  1. 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-…