After the Bronze Age Collapse

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

As dramatic and transformative as collapses are, they're rarely a complete apocalypse. People survived the Bronze Age Collapse, and then they had to wake up in the morning, care for their children, tend their crops, make their tools, and go about creating a new world.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Tides of History, add free on Amazon Music.
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0:05.6	The wind blew through the hills.
0:19.1	Whistling as it found the crevices and tumbled down walls and rustling the grasses growing
0:23.6	up between the paving stones.
0:26.2	The shepherd raised his voice over the dim, shouting at his two sons and aging dog to
0:30.6	keep the flock moving.
0:32.8	Slate grey clouds were gathering above the hills, threatening rain to go along with the
0:36.7	howling breeze.
0:38.9	The vast expanse of ruins would offer some shelter, thought the shepherd.
0:42.8	Some said that the place was cursed, that the people who had lived here offended the gods
0:46.6	and provoked their wrath.
0:47.9	And so they stayed away from the massive carved stone blocks of the fortification walls.
0:53.1	Better to get soaked in a storm or suffer the biting cold of autumn gusts than risk the
0:57.0	anger of the gods.
0:59.4	The shepherd knew better.
1:01.2	His grandfather had lived in the city as a boy, the son of the soldier serving the kings
1:05.6	who had once lived there.
1:07.6	The city wasn't cursed as grandfather had told him.
1:10.0	It would be the old kings of Hati had angered the gods.
1:13.2	The storm god Teschubbe had been strong here.
1:16.1	But it had been the people who had burned the city, not Teschubbe's lightning bolts.
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