2: Assyrian Resilience: Leadership and Perpetual Warfare after 1177 BC AUTHOR NAME: Eric Cline BOOK TITLE: After 1177 BC, The Survival of Civilizations Professor Cline analyzes why societies like the Assyrians survived the 1177 BC collapse, identifying their
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Assyrian Resilience: Leadership and Perpetual Warfare after 1177 BC
BOOK TITLE: After 1177 BC, The Survival of Civilizations
Professor Cline analyzes why societies like the Assyrians survived the 1177 BC collapse, identifying their successful leadership and redundant systems (government, military, writing). Since trade partners vanished, Assyrian leaders resorted to war almost yearly to acquire necessary resources. Their complex relationship with the Babylonians involved periods of alliance and fighting until the Babylonians eventually defeated them centuries later.
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| 0:31.6 | The world has ended, combination of accident and intervention and invasion and migration. |
| 0:40.2 | But we look to who survives, who adapts, who's resilient. |
| 0:44.3 | And we start with the Assyrians because they're in the Bible and they're easy to remember. |
| 0:48.9 | The professor teaches me, however, that the Assyrians were successful because they were almost always at war. |
| 1:02.0 | One particular king of the Assyrians was extremely successful on identifying what you recommend professor is, if you're going to survive, you need leadership, and the Assyrians had it. |
| 1:07.0 | Yes, absolutely. That's one of the things that I do in the final chapter of this new sequel |
| 1:12.8 | is try to figure out why some of the societies, the G8, as I call them, why some of them |
| 1:19.3 | were more resilient, why they were able to make it through the collapse better than others. |
| 1:26.8 | And the Assyrians are one of the best examples. |
| 1:30.3 | They've got redundant systems in place, for example. |
| 1:34.3 | They still have their military. |
| 1:36.3 | They still have writing. |
| 1:37.3 | They still have their government. |
| 1:39.3 | The king is still in place. |
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