Late Bronze Age Collapse

"After the Kids' Club War, the Atlantean-Raman War and the decisive First Battle for Earth, this caused the Empire of Darkness to not only collapse, but many late Bronze Age and early Iron Age civilizations to collapse as well. Also, this paved way for the Phoenicians' notoriety and the Israelites' exodus from Sinai to Canaan, their so-called promised land. What will it be?"

--Su Ji-Hoon, History Changes

The Late Bronze Age collapse was a transition period in the Near East, Anatolia, the Aegean region, North Africa, the Caucasus, the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, a transition which most historians believe was violent, sudden, and culturally disruptive caused by the conflicts of the Kids' Club War, the Atlantean-Raman War, and the decisive First Battle for Earth. The palace economy of the Aegean region and Anatolia that characterized the Late Bronze Age disintegrated, transforming into the small isolated village cultures of the Greek Dark Ages.

A range of explanations for the collapse have been proposed, without any achieving consensus. Several factors probably played a part, including climatic changes (such as those caused by volcanic eruptions), invasions by groups such as the Empire of Darkness, the effects of the spread of iron-based metallurgy, developments in military weapons and tactics, and a variety of failures of political, social and economic systems.