Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

Wish you were here.

Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts.

This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor, Gaius, and Germanicus is here and

we're going to the theater, but before we leave a thought, Germanicus there, a thought.

Germanicus, there is a theory.

Eric Klein is an archaeologist, but it's not only Eric Klein,

looking at the end of the Bronze Age,

somewhere between the year, let's say, 1300 and the year

let's say 900, 800, B.C. in the Eastern Mediterranean, switching from the Bronze Age, Homer, the Iliad,

the Odyssey, Bronze Age, to the Iron Age, which is something we recognize recognize that would be Cyrus the Great of Persia Iron Age

and eventually it leads us to the Roman Empire and modern times. However, the theory is that the breakup was a trade breakup more than a

military breakup of the competing and integrated empires, the Hittite in what is Turkey,

the Mycenians on mainland Greece, the Manoans on Crete, the Cypriots on Cyprus obviously.

And the canons divided into three parts, northern can and middle canons, southern canon,

Egypt, Egypt and that break up there, certainly the Assyrian Empire and

the Babylonian Empire on the Mesopotamian frontier.

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