Bronze Age trade networks spread cyclopean culture. Early Bronze Age was a period of fast innovation with limited warfare Bronze requires metals from different regions, necessitating seafaring trade routes Cyclopean walls represent a thalassocracy phase that did not force itself on land but negotiated trade networks
Bronze Age innovation spread via seafaring trade — bronze requires metals from different regions! Cyclopean cultures represent a softer thalassocracy phase that was later subdued by Iron Age empires and largely erased from memory. Circeo sits at this fascinating crossroads of eras. 🏺⚒️
Key Facts
- Early Bronze Age was a period of fast innovation with limited warfare
- Bronze requires metals from different regions, necessitating seafaring trade routes
- Cyclopean walls represent a thalassocracy phase that did not force itself on land but negotiated trade networks
- By end of Bronze Age, accumulated wealth funded proper empires with monumental works
- Iron Age empires subdued the softer thalassocracy culture, often erasing original identities
- Circeo represents a transition from Bronze Age softness to Iron Age hardness
- Hypothesis suggests cyclopean cultures spread during Bronze Age discovery period, then were subdued and forgotten by imperial powers
Source: (NEW) Sea Power - A rocky endeavor with a surprising origin. by One-eyed giant building walls