S8 Ep582: 4. This file focuses on the "antifragile" societies that thrived amid chaos: the Phoenicians and Cypriots. The Phoenicians transformed into a maritime powerhouse, establishing colonies like Carthage and spreading the standardized alphabet. Meanwhile, the
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4. This file focuses on the "antifragile" societies that thrived amid chaos: the Phoenicians and Cypriots. The Phoenicians transformed into a maritime powerhouse, establishing colonies like Carthage and spreading the standardized alphabet. Meanwhile, the Cypriots pivoted from copper to iron metallurgy, innovating with new technologies that defined the early Iron Age. Cline clarifies that iron weapons did not cause the collapse but were an adaptation to it once tin supplies were cut. Both groups demonstrated genius by seizing opportunities created by broken supply chains, ultimately flourishing while their more rigid, larger neighbors failed to adapt. (4)
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| 1:26.1 | Eric Klein, the mystery writer, 1177 BC, the year civilization collapsed, late Bronze Age, going from what looks to be the World Trade Organization of Stability, Egypt, Hittites, the Myciniens, Cyprus, and Crete, and the mainland of Greece, all reaching across to Babylon. And there are pretenders running Babylon at this time, and then the rising Assyrian Empire, and in between all the sub-kings, all exchanging letters, daughters, gold, and trade going very prosperously. |
| 1:54.9 | Did the merchants replace the kings? Did the kings employ the merchants? All very good questions. But then it was all gone in 1177. |
| 2:03.1 | And what follows, if I follow the professor's argument, is much smaller kingdoms and city states rising in the early Iron Age. |
| 2:11.2 | So what causes it? |
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