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1220 B.C. - A Bronze Age Collapse GSRP

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With so many people applying, I want to remind everyone that Kassite Babylon is the only major power that yet remains unclaimed. If anyone thinks they're up for the challenge...
 
Elvish Trickery said:
While the Bronze Age Collapse will not greatly affect Assyria,
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That is honestly fairly debatable. While the collapse of trade networks and population migrations doesn't immediately lead to the collapse of the Assyrian state, it does weaken it to the point where they were unable to protect their Babylonian holdings from Elam, and after a brief period of expansion in the wake of the Hittite Empire's fall the Assyrian's themselves nearly collapsed, with Assyrian political control being reduced to the core triangle around Nineveh, Arbella, and Aššur, while the largely Assyrian population left behind in the western territories were driven off, enslaved, or outcompeted population-wise by migrating (and already present) Aramean tribes who were generally better suited socially to survive and thrive in those chaotic times.

The character of the Neo-Assyrian Empire itself was largely shaped by the struggle against the Arameans and the Assyrians just not having much of a framework on how to deal with people's who don't have a Hurrian-style warrior elite and palace-based king to talk to.

Also:
1. Assyria
2. Tyros
3. Kaskians
 
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Silvan Eldar said:
That is honestly fairly debatable. While the collapse of trade networks and population migrations doesn't immediately lead to the collapse of the Assyrian state, it does weaken it to the point where they were unable to protect their Babylonian holdings from Elam, and after a brief period of expansion in the wake of the Hittite Empire's fall the Assyrian's themselves nearly collapsed, with Assyrian political control being reduced to the core triangle around Nineveh, Arbella, and Aššur, while the largely Assyrian population left behind in the western territories were driven off, enslaved, or outcompeted population-wise by migrating (and already present) Aramean tribes who were generally better suited socially to survive and thrive in those chaotic times.

The character of the Neo-Assyrian Empire itself was largely shaped by the struggle against the Arameans and the Assyrians just not having much of a framework on how to deal with people's who don't have a Hurrian-style warrior elite and palace-based king to talk to.
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That is a totally fair point, I do think it would be prudent to amend that with relatively and in this particular timeframe. Far as I know Assyria's power did wane in the years after Tukulti-Ninurta's death in 1207 mostly because of dynastic infighting, Babylonia temporarily regaining a stronger position and the Elamite conquests up until around 1160 BC (which is after our game ends), and it was afterwards in the late 12th, 11th and 10th century BC that things really went downhill. So on the whole, you're absolutely correct, it's just that Assyria will have, in the period this game deals with, comparatively fewer problems than most other states.

This is me going by what I read in A Companion to Assyria and The End of the Bronze Age - Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong there.

In any case, glad to have someone on board who definitely knows what they're talking about! 😊
 
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1. Knossis
2. Lukka
3. Dardani

May as well go for some small polity since I'm kinda busy till midweek but this is a time period I actually know some stuff about!
 
1.Cicones (Thracian Arms Trade!)
2.Tyros (did anybody say Carthage?)
3.Byblos (no seriously we are going to colonize Rome and prevent that debacle)

This looks exciting, i know a bit about the Bronze Age collapse but not all that much. Who are the Sea People going to be? Or will they be kept as this mysterious people from nowhere and everywhere? Or will they be the refugees from plagues, famines and warfare as some seem to theorize?
 
Kings and chiefs of the four corners of the world and beyond, heed these words:

Gather your vassals, levy your armies, sharpen your swords, draft up your letters, wheel out your chariots, put your ships out to sea, and remember: you have nothing to lose, but a place in the history books to win! The great game begins now! I want orders in by Sunday the 28th!
1220 B.C. - A Bronze Age Collapse GSRP [Open, 24/26] [Ongoing] IC - Alt. History - Historic
 
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