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Cline’s bundle of crisis factors: climate, drought, famine, earthquakes, revolutions, civil wars, and migration.
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perfect storm
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Glossary
A simultaneous cluster of crises, such as plague, drought, war, and revolution, that a brittle society cannot handle.
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The consensus account in which multiple factors over decades, rather than one event, bring down the Bronze Age system.
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Eric Cline’s perfect-storm account includes climate change, drought, famine, earthquakes, revolution, civil war, and migration, but Jiang adds capital as the system-level cause.
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Collapse is sudden rather than gradual because authoritarian societies cannot survive a perfect storm of crises when criticism is forbidden.
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The current scholarly theory is described as perfect storm or systems collapse: not one event in one year, but decades of earthquakes, climate cooling, and internal revolt.
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Jiang explains revolutions such as 1848 through converging pressures rather than single causes, including climate shocks, economic collapse, state-finance breakdown, new communication media, and new industrial classes.
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"...have predicted that there'd be these revolutions, but there was a perfect storm of crises, right? You had, so like weather change, so drought..."
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"And you also had an uncontrolled new medium of communication in the printing press. There were newsletters flying everywhere, stirring up discontentment and coordinating..."
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"There were newsletters flying everywhere, stirring up discontentment and coordinating it. And you also had new industrial productions. You had a new economy. You..."
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"...the Bronze Age collapse happened. And he says it was a perfect storm of crisis. Including climate change, which led to drought, which led..."
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"But I want to extend this and say it has to do with the fact that it was a total capitalistic system. And so,..."
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"So, in the rise phase, what matters first and foremost is unity of the people. We're all working together. There's empathy. There's concern for..."
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"...this system cannot survive external shocks. So, external shocks is a perfect storm of crises. So, another way of saying this is maybe society..."
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"...for this, but the theory that we have today is a perfect storm. Okay? Or a systems collapse. And the idea"
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"...have today is, what caused the Bronze Age collapse, was a perfect storm, basically a multiple factor, which led to systems collapse. Okay? Does..."
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"...by one, they collapsed. And the reason why was that a perfect storm of calamities came at the same time. There were earthquakes. There..."
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"...will be a major environmental catastrophe. And it's possible it's a perfect storm of catastrophes, meaning pestilence, famine, drought. Earthquakes, just a perfect storm...."
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"...the destruction of Europe what we believe is that there's a perfect storm engulfing this world at this time okay so this perfect storm..."
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