I'm John Bachelors, 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 Mycenians 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 is how did they survive or did they and

here and professor I divide into the mycenians and the Minoans on Crete. The Minoans were builders. The Mycenians were okay builders, but they inherited

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 Minoans on Crete and Sir Arthur Evans

excavated the site of Canalsos, but on, and it is on the Greek mainland mainly that we've got the Mycenians.

Sites like Mycenae, where Agamemnon may have ruled, Antirons and Pylos.

And they also do have pretty amazing structures like the

Landgate at Mycenae. They're actually kind of rivals the Minoans and the Mycenans at that time.

They're both known overseas.

The Egyptians called the Minoans Kefdieu

and the Mycenians Tanya and eventually the Mycenans 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 Mycenaeans are down towards the bottom. They're almost examples

of what not to do. But why that is the case is still a question. It's a dilemma.

Because the writing that we've got linear B as it's called which is an early form of Greek.

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