"Bronze Age Europe" did not exist. During the Bronze Age, there were many different cultures in Europe with no continental significance.
The "collapse" that occurred around 1200 BCE was basically Greece and Anatolia, if that counts as Europe, under pressure from a new wave of Indo-Europeans. That is when the "Sea Peoples" were kicked loose from the Anatolian coast and moved south to the eponymous Palestine. But these events had no direct impact on northern Germany and little if any indirect influence.
There is, in short, no evidence of a "collapse" around the Baltic.
Anatolia is Asia Minor, i.e. the original Asia. The other parts of Asia got named after it!
(Much like the Indus River inadvertantly gave its name to a subcontinent, the people of Indonesia (East Indies), Caribbean (West Indies) and nearly all the natives of the Americas.)
Yes, that's why I said "if [Anatolia] counts as Europe." My point was that Greek civilization at that time was not purely European but also comprised a roughly equal number of people, and an identical culture, along eastern shore of the Agean Sea. Homer and a lot of other leading Greek intellectuals, as you know, lived in Asia and not in Europe.
So if we are talking about the collapse of European civilization, which in this case means the Graeco-centric world, we are discussing the collapse of Greece in Anatolia as well as Europe.
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Religion does not need facts or proof. When I was a boy in the ‘60s, science(except medicine)was looked at like a disease. The Drs. Always needed help with oil and laying on of hands, o’course.
The Holy Nelson at General Conference announced the big upcoming focus on the bicentennial of that holy beloved day/hour when the Almighty and Big Brother appeared brighter than the noon day sun (or maybe even as bright as Vegas at night) to this mighty prophet Joseph and told him about all those other churches being abominable. I don't recall the exact day and time of that glorious vision but can presume its one of those events where the detail and precision could never be forgotten. And as the time of the bicentennial approaches a lot of focus is going to be on that marvelous grove of trees, Smith farm, and the glorious hill Cumorah where wagon loads of metal plates of holy writ are inside the record room there and obviously numerous artifacts from a great battle that took place around 1650 years ago or half the time passed since that German battle spoken of in this thread. Just imagine the weeping and wailing we'll see on this board when all those ancient Nephite civilzation swords (with hebrew DNA of the blood, finger marks, and other body deposits) and other artifacts are discovered. It only takes a couple hours of tithing revenue to dig up a lot of artifacts. So get super nervous that this wondrous honest/transparent Church is going to be able to be proven for what it is :)
"Three-thousand years ago, at least 140 fighters died in a battle along the banks of Germany’s Tollense River. One of the fallen dropped a small kit containing tools and a handful of bronze scraps. Based on the types of artifacts archaeologists found in this kit, they've concluded that at least some of the combatants in the prehistoric battle probably came from hundreds of kilometers away in Central or even Southern Europe.
According to University of Göttingen archaeologist Tobias Uhlig and his colleagues, that suggests that large-scale battles between far-flung groups began long before people in Europe had developed a system of writing to record the history of their conflicts."