And it'll happen fast in some places, but not all at once. A seawall collapses. A 20 year drought empties a city. But most places keep going on just fine.
Of course...If the system is under too much stress and has no resiliancy...you can get a Bronze age collapse scenario when a lot of things go down inside a decade, and you can even pinpoint an 18 month period at its peak where people don't even have time to tell the next city along the line that the city before them has fallen.
And it'll happen fast in some places, but not all at once. A seawall collapses. A 20 year drought empties a city. But most places keep going on just fine.
Of course...If the system is under too much stress and has no resiliancy...you can get a Bronze age collapse scenario when a lot of things go down inside a decade, and you can even pinpoint an 18 month period at its peak where people don't even have time to tell the next city along the line that the city before them has fallen.