What caused the weakening and collapse of major states in the Eastern Mediterranean at the end of the second millennium B.C.E.?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Increase exposure to invaders
1. Egypt was used to invasions but frontiers were hard to invade
2. Mesopotamia and Harappa had attractive environments at their frontiers
3. Sea Peoples took Hatti and a string of cities in southern Anatolia and along the eastern Mediterranean
B. widespread instability of populations driven by hunger and land shortages
1. increasing migrations were a consequence
C. ecological fragility and unstable, competitive politics
1. similar to other parts of the world
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