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Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnond.

And me, William Duremple.

Now, over the next three episodes, what we're going to do is we're going to take you to the place we've been promising for quite some time, because for the last three episodes, we've been talking about the Bronze Age collapse, and here it is.

We've seen those sophisticated, interconnected, fingers that stretch in between these different kingdoms making this tapestry world. And it's been a chance for us to explore Mycini.

It's been a chance to explore Troy and to examine how Homer perhaps preserve the memories

of a lost world, if not the actual facts of what happened, which was a shock to me.

So that's what we're going to do.

That's why we're here to understand what really happened today.

And to guide us through this territory, we have the wonderful Eric Klein, Professor Eric Klein,

whose books have kept me very happy over Christmas. I read both of them and Kerala.

I just finished the last chapter, the last one today, and they are absolutely wonderful.

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