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The Bronze Age Collapse was arguably the greatest disaster ever to strike civilization, worse than the fall of the Western Roman Empire, as many of the civilizations of the Bronze Age were destroyed (like the Hittites and the Mycanaeans) or diminished (like Egypt and Assyria), but could it have been even worse? If so, how could it have been worse? Could civilization have been reduced to a tribal and pre-literate state? How long would it take for civilization to recover from such a blow?