Context: The Late Bronze Age collapse was a sudden systemic failure where major empires like the Hittites and Mycenaeans fell apart due to a mix of invasions, climate change, and trade disruptions. While the Sea Peoples are often blamed for the raids, the real cause was likely a perfect storm of disasters that broke the ancient world’s interconnected economy.
Their empire was already fragmented before the 12th century, their capital probably abandoned before it burned down at an unknown date some time in this approximate era.
Mycenean Greece slowly diminished due to migration pressure, internal turmoil, probably climate change, etc but existed roughly until 1050 BCE (after the bronze age collapse).
There was a period of decline during the 12th century BCE, but before 1100, a second period of prosperity, consolidation and expansion was ushered in, the Middle Assyrian Empire ended only in 912 BCE.
I mean, the Kassite dynasty was the longest lasting in the Middle Babylonian Kingdom, but it was just one dynasty. Incidentally, the Assyrians were part of the reason the Kassites were deposed as rulers.
Wasn’t even a kingdom anymore but a province of the Middle Assyrian Empire during the period of the bronze age collapse, and before the Assyrians they were defeated by the Hittites
There is a debate about how many destruction sites there actually were. Generally (for the whole supposed collapse) there were 148 sites with 153 destruction events attributed to the bronz age collapse described by archeologists and historians during the last 150 years or so. Modern historians and archeaologists like Jesse Millek however state that 94 of these are either not supported well by evidence, misdated or didn’t happen at all.
Just to make this clear: I don’t say nothing happened during that time. Clearly, Ugarit was destroyed in 1185 BCE and a few trading hubs went down and Egypt surely struggled. I just reject the notion of “everything falling to pieces quasi-simultaniously, violently and suddenly”. Accounting for some misdates, some exaggerations and suddenly it is not a peak in catastrophic events but a slightly curved hill or something.
The mysterious “Sea Peoples” were not a foreign invading force out of nowhere but a bunch of local groups (some of which are actually well attested, like the Lukka and Peleset while a few others have origins that are not documented).
Speaking in modern terms, the name “Bronze Age Collapse” would be called pretty clickbaity.