S8 Ep582: 8. In this final segment, Cline summarizes the rankings of ancient societies based on resilience definitions from the IPCC. He distinguishes between those that "transformed" (the antifragile Phoenicians and Cypriots), those that "adapted" or "coped" (Eg
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🗓️ 15 March 2026
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8. In this final segment, Cline summarizes the rankings of ancient societies based on resilience definitions from the IPCC. He distinguishes between those that "transformed" (the antifragile Phoenicians and Cypriots), those that "adapted" or "coped" (Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon), and those that failed (the Hittites). He emphasizes the importance of geography, noting that major river systems like the Nile and Euphrateshelped Egypt and Mesopotamia survive the collapse. Cline’s work illustrates that resilience involves more than just survival; it requires the agility to innovate in response to extreme impact events, offering lessons for contemporary global stability. (8)
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| 0:24.6 | 1177 BC, the year civilization collapsed. The second book, the sequel, just published after 1177 BC, The Survival of Civilizations, like a really good melodrama. |
| 0:38.3 | It gives us a moment at the end that if we change our ways, we can get out of this trouble. |
| 0:44.3 | So we come to, how do we get out of this trouble? |
| 0:47.3 | I'm going to lead with the survivors who were sophisticated, the Phoenicians and the Cypriots. |
| 0:54.4 | Now, the Cypriots, I'm going to set aside for a moment because they had a wonderful island, |
| 0:58.0 | but the Phoenicians didn't have anything like an island. |
| 1:00.3 | They were vulnerable to all of the invasion routes of the Levant. |
| 1:04.5 | They were also shipboard. |
| 1:06.5 | In other words, great risk all the time in the Mediterranean. |
| 1:09.9 | But they were anti-fragile. |
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