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Here's John Bachelor.

Continuing my conversation with Professor Eric Klein, his new book After 1177 BC, the survival of

civilizations, a sequel to his original idea 1177 BC the year

civilization collapsed which is now revised and updated for everyone to read both

books together it's important to note that the Bronze Age was

globalization. Trade of seven or eight empires intermixed in the Eastern Mediterranean trade routes established, making bronze, tin

from Afghanistan, copper from Cyprus and other mines in the Mediterranean Basin, the same for clothing, the same for

spices, the same for gold coming from all over. Adam Smith would approve of the

13, the Bronze Age. However, it then crashed suddenly with a

combination that the professor can list, but they were all bad things happening

at the same time. Some survived and some

didn't. We talked about the survivors so far. Now we're going to go to the

failures. The Hittites, the reason you don't know that name is because they

failed. Professor, the Hittites were Turkey, where Anatolian Heights.

They had a vast area to develop.

They were a powerful empire and they failed.

My reading of your explication, because there are a series of decisions that they make

and from their capital Hattusa, is that they had bad leadership. What else went wrong with them? Thank you.

So they do have bad leadership at the end, you're quite right, but in their heyday they were to be reckoned with I mean the

Hittites as a whole are in central Anatolia modern day Turkey from about

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