Book: 20260828 to 20260906, "1177 B.C." by Eric H. Cline

 

20260828 - PROLOGUE

20260829 - The Collapse of Civilizations: 1177 BC 1

attacked the city of Babylon in 1595 BC, burning it to the ground and ending the two-hundred-year-old dynasty made famous by Hammurabi "the Law-Giver."p33
Troy and the Trojan War - happened at around 1250 BC. p36
It's around 400 years between them.

20260829 - CHAPTER ONE Act I. Of Arms and the Man: The Fifteenth Century BC 14

20260829 - CHAPTER TWO Act II. An (Aegean) Affair to Remember: The Fourteenth Century BC 41

All same, just at smaller scale, and at slower pace.
Politics are there even in a tribe of chimpanzees.
This means, it's quite easy for AI to understand human, and other animals or plants.

20260831 - CHAPTER THREE Act III. Fighting for Gods and Country: The Thirteenth Century BC 69

20260901 - CHAPTER FOUR Act IV. The End of an Era: The Twelfth Century BC 102

No doubt that "culture" is critical in those changes, including the noble's corruptions/collapse.
Unfortunately no evidence in that part, as paper was not invented yet.

20260906 - CHAPTER FIVE A “Perfect Storm” of Calamities? 134

These ( ice-rafted debris, IRD ) are thought to occur approximately (but not precisely) every 1,500 years. p163
Together with Rapid Climate Changes ( RCCs ), my understanding is, if the ocean temperature drop 2 to 3 Celsius degree, we are likely to get much less rain fall in very long period of time, such as hundreds of years.

Volcano winter also cause the temperature to drop, which leads to much less rain. But that's not likely to last for hundreds of years.

The key is not about how the calamities happened, but about why it took more than 200 years to recover. Megadrought is surely the only reason.

20260906 - CHAPTER Six Sea Peoples, Systems Collapse, and Complexity Theory 167

This civilization collapse at 1177BC is quite different from the threat we are facing today. By that time, international trade is minimum. Today, it is critical.
Global production is necessary. Donald Trump is right about this point.

20260906 - EPILOGUE The Aftermath 181

My understanding is that redundancy is the only effective way to prevent "the black swans". International trading is one of ways of reduncancy.