What changes have occurred in the climate of the Bronze Age?

The most significant change is the very severe drought in the Mediterranean region. In central Europe, north of the Pyrenees and the Alps, the climate, on the contrary, became more humid at this time. The fact that climatic changes have become one of the most important reasons and, apparently, the trigger for the catastrophe of the Bronze Age, now hardly anyone doubts. All large states of that time and many cities ceased to exist or were seriously weakened. In particular, the Hittite kingdom disappeared. Babylon and Assyria lost control of territory outside the walls of their cities, Egypt lost its dominance in Syria and Canaan. The greatest civilizations in the Mediterranean were essentially destroyed. In many previously developed and wealthy areas, the period of the Dark Ages began.