When we hear the term “globalism” we usually think of it in the context of a recent era of civilization where economics is implied. Probably, the era 1,200 years BC does not readily spring to mind. Assuredly, there are a very select few for whom the word “amphorae” might be considered. However, a recently discovered Bronze Age shipwreck off of Northern Israel’s coast, has links to all of these issues:
Golden sunlight fell on the two amphorae, still caked in brown ooze, as they breached the Mediterranean’s waves. Their ascent from the seafloor, more than a mile down and 60 miles from land, had taken three hours. It was the first daylight they had seen in at least 3,200 years, and they came from the only Bronze Age shipwreck discovered in deep waters.
Archaeologists retrieved these Canaanite storage jars, just two from a cargo of dozens located far off northern Israel’s coast in May.
“It’s the only ship from this period that was found in the deep sea,” one of the final frontiers of archaeology, says Jacob Sharvit, director of marine archaeology at the Israel Antiquities Authority. Only a handful of other Late Bronze Age ships have been discovered—all of them in shallow coastal waters of the Mediterranean Sea, including in the Aegean Sea.
Sharvit helped spearhead a complex archaeological operation far offshore, along with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) and offshore gas firm Energean to retrieve the jars from the seafloor.
In the Bronze Age people shipped these storage jars across the Levant starting around 2000 B.C.E., when maritime trade in the Mediterranean exploded.
“They’re always either pointy or rounded at the bottom,” so they rock with ship’s motion but don’t tip over and break, says Shelley Wachsmann, a nautical archaeology expert at Texas A&M University, who was not involved in the research. source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/oldest-deep-sea-shipwreck-discovered-off-israel/
It seems that this time of history is of special interest for people today who concern themselves with “global stability”:
At that time, the ship and its crew sailed a world of prolific international trade, diplomacy and relative stability in the eastern Mediterranean, which was dominated by the Egyptian and Hittite empires. Merchant ships carrying olive oil, wine, ores, timber, precious stones and numerous other goods plied the seas between Greece, Cyprus, Anatolia, the Levant and Egypt.
“This is the time that the Mediterranean is globalized,” says Eric Cline, a professor of archaeology at George Washington University. “You’ve got lots of commerce, lots of diplomacy and lots of interconnections” between the Egyptian, Hittite, and Assyrian empires and the lands between them, says Cline, whose newly published book, After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations, explores the aftermath of the collapse of this Late Bronze Age international order.
In our own era of globalization, this disintegration draws particular interest among scholars looking for clues into how stable civilizations foundered in the past. source: ibid
Apparently, these archaeologists do not believe the Biblical explanation for the disturbance of this period:
According to Scripture, a number of milestones—Moses, the plagues on Egypt, the Exodus and the giving of the law at Mt. Sinai—also occurred toward the end of the Bronze Age ca. 1400bc. The collapse of the Bronze Age around 1200bc occurred during the time of the Judges when the twelve tribes of Israel were moving into the Promised Land of Palestine. This was a “time of anarchy and upheaval” (Judges 21:25; Frank E. Gaebelein, ed. The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, Vol. 3. Zondervan: 1992. p. 506) just as archaeologists have found. Egyptian inscriptions reveal that among the Sea Peoples who invaded Palestine were the Shardana and Danuna (possibly the Israelite tribe of Dan) who were circumcised and wore horned helmets (Cline, pp. 1–8), much as the Danish Vikings of a later age have been depicted. Cline suggests “the Israelites took advantage of the havoc caused by the Sea Peoples in Canaan to move in and take control of the region” because they would be “among the groups of peoples who will make up a new world order, emerging out of the chaos that was the end of the Late Bronze Age” (pp. 95–96). source: https://www.tomorrowsworld.org/magazines/2016/may-june/rise-of-the-chosen-people
There are, no doubt, curious linguistic styles present in the source for the time-period of the Israelis moving into the region such as “New World Order” as opposed to “YHVH directed order”. The implication is that these old Canaanite systems were out of order, and as they Kingdom of YHVH came into being, they were overthrown, apparently rapidly enough that in some cases, entire vessels went down on their sides with all their cargo relatively unmolested.