When the Bronze Age ended, it didn’t go quietly. Between 1200 and 1150 BC, nearly every major civilization around the Mediterranean — the Mycenaeans, the Hittites, the Canaanites, the Cypriots — collapsed within decades of each other.
Eric Cline has spent his career reconstructing what actually happened, and why it matters so much to our globalized world today.
Dr. Eric H. Cline is Professor of Classics and Anthropology, the former Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the current Director of the Capitol Archaeological Institute at The George Washington University, in Washington DC. He is a National Geographic Explorer, a Fulbright scholar, a Getty scholar, an NEH Public Scholar, and an award-winning teacher and author. He has degrees in archaeology and ancient history from Dartmouth, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania; in May 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctoral degree (honoris causa) from Muhlenberg College.
Timestamps:
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0:00 Who were the Sea Peoples?
5:20 The perfect storm
8:59 Drought, famine and migration
11:45 Evidence for invaders beyond Egypt
14:53 Destructions and possible internal rebellions
26:11 Multiplier Effects, Domino Effects, and Network Collapse
30:47 Systems collapse and the Dark Age debate
37:58 Uneven survival and the problem of labels
Telling your kids to go to bed or the sea peoples are going to get you is extremely funny and makes me instantly like this guy.
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