# Organised invaders who destroyed functioning states.

> Disputed: Organised invaders who destroyed functioning states.

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Answer · Late Bronze Age collapse

# Organised invaders who destroyed functioning states.

Organised invaders who destroyed functioning states.

**Disputed** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Disputed** One piece of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Attacks precede the climate and economic decline at each site.

## What would rule it out

- Evidence of famine and decline before the attacks.

## Evidence 1 for · none against

[The Year 8 inscription describes a confederation that overran Hatti, Cyprus and Syria before reaching Egypt.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bronze-age-collapse/evidence/EVD0D464Z906NGZ/the-year-8-inscription-describes-a-confederation-that)

Suggestive

FOR

## The questions it answers

[Were the Sea Peoples a cause of the collapse or a consequence of it?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bronze-age-collapse/questions/QST0D464NGG66KP/were-the-sea-peoples-a-cause-of-the-collapse-or-a)

Most likelyPopulations displaced by famine and the failure of their own states, moving with their families

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