S8 Ep582: 7. Cline addresses the vulnerability of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations, which served as models for "what not to do" during a crisis. Despite their outward appearance of strength, these societies were fragile systems that collapsed completely after
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🗓️ 15 March 2026
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7. Cline addresses the vulnerability of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations, which served as models for "what not to do" during a crisis. Despite their outward appearance of strength, these societies were fragile systems that collapsed completely after the 12th century BC. Their writing system, Linear B, was limited to accounting, leaving no literary records of their downfall. The transition to the Iron Age saw the disappearance of their specific social structures, though names of gods like Zeus and Poseidon endured. This period illustrates how societies can appear vibrant while being internally decayed, leading to a total replacement of their political identities. (7)
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| 0:36.3 | The book is After 1177, Lessons Learned, |
| 0:39.4 | about how you cope with, how you survive, how you don't. What resilience is when the world |
| 0:45.9 | has met a catastrophe that wipes out crops, wipes out people, reduces populations by up to |
| 0:53.1 | 70, 80, 90%. |
| 0:55.0 | And we come now to the Minoans, which we know as Crete, |
| 1:00.0 | and the Mycinians, which we know as, not the mainland, |
| 1:04.0 | a series of islands that are attached, the Peloponnese, |
| 1:08.0 | the mainland where Athens is, but this is early on. |
| 1:11.6 | And so the question is, how did they survive or did they? |
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