Modern economies are deeply globalized, dependent on supply chains that span multiple continents.

The disruptions of 2020 and subsequent years demonstrated how vulnerable those supply chains can be.

Climate change represents a potential disruption of the kind that the Bronze Age civilization experienced — not as dramatic in any single year, but cumulative and potentially devastating in its effects on agricultural productivity, water availability, and the stability of vulnerable populations.

The Bronze Age Collapse is also a study in the relationship between migration and crisis.

The Sea Peoples were, in significant part, displaced people moving in response to the collapse of the world they had known.