IRON WAS AN UNINTENDED RESULT OF TRADE STRANGULATION: 3/8: After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations by Eric H. Cline (Author)
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🗓️ 4 October 2024
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https://www.amazon.ca/After-1177-B-C-Survival-Civilizations/dp/0691192138
At the end of the acclaimed history 1177 B.C., many of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean lay in ruins, undone by invasion, revolt, natural disasters, famine, and the demise of international trade. An interconnected world that had boasted major empires and societies, relative peace, robust commerce, and monumental architecture was lost and the so-called First Dark Age had begun. Now, in After 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the compelling story of what happened next, over four centuries, across the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean world. It is a story of resilience, transformation, and success, as well as failures, in an age of chaos and reconfiguration.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a new book is a sequel to the |
| 0:03.7 | This is CBS I on the World. I'm John Bachelor visiting with Professor Eric Klein. His new book is a sequel to the original genius |
| 0:17.8 | 1177 BC, the year civilization collapsed, dated. This is the Bronze Age ending in a series of catastrophes, but it's about to introduce the Iron Age. |
| 0:25.8 | The way to think about this in terms of literature is the Odyssey and the Iliad are the Bronze Age. The Iron Age that follows looks a whole lot like the Old Testament. |
| 0:38.0 | So right now we're going to go to Israel at the time and the Israelites via Egypt. |
| 0:47.0 | Professor, there are lessons to be learned about how some of the Big Eight, Big Seven, Big Six, the global traders of 1300 BC, how the ones |
| 0:59.2 | succeeded in the ones that didn't. Egypt had a series of rulers from Ramses a third, I believe he was |
| 1:06.4 | murdered by his wife and his son, or her son, to Ramses 11 and this is the 22nd dynasty. |
| 1:15.0 | What do we find in there that is that tells us the catastrophe's 1177 is |
| 1:21.8 | wearing him down? What's in there? |
| 1:25.0 | So in the aftermath of the collapse and Ramsey's the third is the one who defeats the Sea Peoples that we've mentioned in 1177 but he is then as |
| 1:37.9 | you just mentioned assassinated apparently by his wife and son, a minor wife, and his mummies been found with his throat slashed. |
| 1:48.0 | So after him, there's a series of additional pharaohs that actually 19th, 20th, until the 21st and onward in terms of dynasties. |
| 1:58.9 | And we wind up with Egypt not doing so well if I could put it that way. |
| 2:06.3 | They do manage to survive, but they are merely coping in the aftermath of the collapse rather than transforming or or even |
| 2:16.9 | adapting. They are merely coping and we find ourselves in the centuries after the collapse in Egypt in what is known as the third intermediate period, |
| 2:28.0 | which is a time of, shall we say, anarchy and chaos chaos such that at one point we've got no fewer than three or even four different people |
| 2:39.8 | calling themselves Pharaoh in different regions of Egypt. |
| 2:44.5 | So the upshot for us is that Egypt, which had been one of the major players |
| 2:51.1 | on the international stage. Supplying gold, for instance, to most of the other great |
| 2:57.2 | powers, Egypt now retreats to a certain extent from that international stage, |
| 3:03.6 | and is busy coping at home with their own problems, |
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