The elites and ones in power were the ones most decimated by the bronze age collapse, so this reasoning feels flawed.
replyThe descendants of bronze-age kings are surely more likely to be today's elite politicians than today's homeless people.
replyWhat is your evidence to support that? there is no 1:1 comparison here. The groups that likely survived these collapses were largely nomadic or at the fringes of society, used to sustaining themselves without the support of the existing power structures.
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