What if the Bronze Age Collapse Never Happened?

Civilization may feel like its ending. But there was a time where it really actually did. A time before the Romans, Greeks or Parthians that was forgotten until modern archeology. The Bronze Age. So what if the Bronze Age collapse never actually happened and the societies from it continued onward? Here is one scenario.

[tjoconnell]

Fun fact: the earliest peace treaty comes from this period. Well, before the collapse anyway.

[panqueque]

We're all be watching this on our bronze computers.

[peterroberts]

Everything changed when the Sea Peoples attacked

[slyninja]

Linear B is essentially the European equivalent of Japanese.

A mix of syllabic and logographic writing.

[kuroazrem]

This is one of the most interesting yet ignored periods in history.

[pergys]

As far as I can understand, picto graphy won’t just be a nightmare limited to Asia

[CocoHutzpah]

The Mycenaeans would have conquered all of Europe because, as we all know, they had giant robots.

[Darth_Insidious]

Civilisation is 12, 000 years old. We only know about a third of that history. Imagine all that was lost and forgotten.

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

Tired of using lame, sad metal? Introducing *bronze!*  Made from special ingredient tin from the far lands of Tin Land. I don't know, my dealer won't tell me where he gets it

[jacobtrowbridge]

I'd like to imagine Egypt and the Hittite state (or maybe more accurately their successors) becoming the modern equivalent of Britain and France, or Russia and Germany - no two nations with so much war, peace, allegiance, culture, history and intricacy between them.

[TheMonkeygoneape]

to give context for the "brother" relationship between The Egyptians and Hittites, based off of a mix of Armarna letters and Hitttite record, they would refer to themselves in letters as "Brother", "Uncle" and "Nephew" and it was pretty much a way of addressing eachother's rank (Brothers were equal, Uncle was superior and Nephew was inferior")

[peculiarpangolin]

"Imagine you wanted to learn German, but you needed to memorize entirely new characters and symbols."
Well, I think my required learning of the Fractur script has got you covered!

[jcheck]

I can’t imagine a continuous civilization that never had some sort of collapse in ancient history, I’d have to doubt Mycanea could have lasted 1000 years

[Crick]

Things that make me cry
1. Burning of the Library of Alexandria
2. Bronze Age Collapse
3. Fall of Constantinople

[SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Bronze? No way, I’d rather have gold. Gold for all my Olympians

[yodef]

I would just like to go to a parallel universe in which the collapse of the bronze age didn't happen and just see and learn how history, culture and geopolitics are in that world, and the closest thing we have to that are this kind of videos, so i guess, thank you.

[c-money]

The classical Greeks knew of the Mycenaeans and thought themselves successors. But I've always wondered if the Mycenaeans knew of the Minoans.

[DogWalkerBill]

In summary: If everything was different, everything would be different.

[uiytresen]

Expected a conspiracy, got a head cannon.

[timothyhadrian]

You most definitely need a Part 2 of this video focusing on the Western Celtic And Germanic Tribes of the Bronze Age.