ABSTRACT
This chapter briefly recapitulates the events that led to the Collapse which took place at the end of the Late Bronze Age in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean. It includes a brief look at the various stressors and drivers that combined to create a “perfect storm” of calamities, as well as a few preliminary thoughts on what happened immediately after the Collapse, in terms of how the various societies either did or did not successfully transform or rebound over the course of the next few centuries. It concludes by itemizing several questions that still remain to be answered, including whether they were aware that their entire world system was coming to an end, and whether they could have done anything about it, had they realized it. The relevance of studying such a collapse in terms of our world today is also considered as a final point of discussion.
