content: I'm ignorant about the Bronze-Age_Collapse, so it was all new to me. I found it exciting and wanted to share. Even the throw away line that the first coins are from around 700 BC, (so the collapse was before coinage) was a surprise to me. Eric Cline goes through evidence that there was a long drought, some famine (perhaps caused by the drought), probably quite a few earthquakes, plenty of war and burned ruins of cities. Definitely Sea People turning up causing extra war, but the Egyptians won their wars. He dodges the question of who were the Sea People and how could they be so strong militarily to cause the collapse, by suggesting that they were just one of several problems and that the late Bronze Age Collapse was probably caused by too much bad stuff happening all at once. I don't know if that is a "New" development.