How Did Mycenaean Culture Affect Empire Building

With the prolonged period of drought, social upheavals, and migrations that caused the destruction of settled societies and established governments, regions couldn’t support the large amounts of people and in turn they had to leave in search for fertile land to live in (Pollard 122). Therefore, this impacted empire building as there was less people to help work on these buildings. If there was any people that stayed, or slaves that were still able to work on these empire buildings, it most likely took them a long time to finish them. But since there was not much food or resources, it was most likely impossible for empire building to continue. Most regions had to secure food supplies, others plead for help, and like the Mycenaean culture in

Greece, they banished (Pollard 122). There was not much to do but to migrate to other territories to be able to survive.
Some of the groups who benefited would have been those who invented technologies that were helpful during the times of drought. For example, to help empires rise, “advances in the use of pack camels, seaworthy vessels, iron tools for cultivation, and iron weapons for warfare facilitated the rise of empire” (Pollard 123). This not only brought money to the inventors of these technologies, but it brought help for the people and empires that these innovations provided. The camels and seaworthy vessels helped facilitate trade, the fat of the camel’s humps allowed it to travel vast distances and survive longer and innovations in boats helped venture across vast bodies of water (Pollard 123). With trade being facilitated, empires had a chance to rise again and obtain good from farther lands. The innovations in metalworking brought tools that helped shift agrarian techniques (Pollard 126). These techniques allowed farming to change and adapt to the different terrains.