I'm John Batchel with Professor Eric Klein.

The book is After 1177, Lessons Learned About How You Cope With, How You Survive, How You Don't.

What resilience is when the world has met a catastrophe that wipes out crops, wipes out people, reduces populations by up to 70, 80, 90%.

And we come now to the Minoans, which we know as Crete, and the Mycinians, which we know as,

not the mainland, a series of islands that are attached, the Peloponnese, the mainland where Athens is, but this is early on.

And so the question is, how did they survive or did they?

And herein, Professor, I divide into the Mycenaeans and the Minoans on Crete.

The Minoans were builders.

Mycenaeans were okay builders, but they inherited it a lot, if I read this correctly.

The Minoans were building huge operations, sort of like Belt and Road Initiative.

Why that looked to be a creation of genuine superiority?

Why did it fall apart?

Well, these are good questions.

But what we've got basically in the late Bronze Age,

we've got the Minowans on Crete,

and Sir Arthur Evans excavated the site of Canosos, but on, and it is

on the Greek mainland mainly that we've got the Mycenaeans, sites like Mycenae, where Agamemnon

may have ruled and Tyrrhans and Pylos. And they also do have pretty amazing structures like the land gate at Mycenae.

They're actually kind of rivals, the Minoans and the Mycinians at that time. They're

both known overseas. The Egyptians called the Minoans Keftiou and the Mycinans Tanaya.

And eventually, actually, the Mycinans take over Crete before the end.

And so that may have helped contribute to the demise of the Minoans. But overall, in my categorization, the Minoans and Mycenaeons are down towards the bottom.

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