The Bronze Age Collapse of 1177 BC: The Most Catastrophic Event in History

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History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 August 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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There was an event in history worse than World War I, worse than the Mongol invasions that killed 40 million, worse than the little Ice Age that triggered famines and rebellions across the medieval world. This event was the "Dark Ages before the Dark...

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0:00.0	The History of North America podcast is a sweeping historical saga of the United States,
0:09.4	Canada, and Mexico from their deep origins to our present epoch.
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0:59.5	Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast, the unscripted show that celebrates unsung heroes,
1:14.6	Mythbust's historical lies, and rediscover the forgotten stories that changed our world.
1:21.3	I'm your host, Scott Rank.
1:28.5	Hi everyone, welcome to one of those in-between episodes where I answer any question about history that you have for me.
1:33.2	Today's question is this, what is the most catastrophic event that happened in history?
1:38.7	When I say that your mind might race to something terrible like the Holocaust,
1:43.3	Mass of Death, maybe the 1918 Spanish influenza that killed millions,
1:47.8	but I'm going to talk about something catastrophic on a civilizational level.
1:52.4	The thing I want to look at is the first dark age that we have recorded in human history.
1:58.3	I learned about this when I was on an academic fellowship, and I was friends with a lot of archaeologists
2:02.5	who studied the Assyrian Empire, the Hittite Empire, and they spoke of an event called the Bronze
2:09.1	Age Collapse. First, I want to set the stage for what a collapse is.
2:14.3	If you look around what you have in your room, you might see that you have a PlayStation 4.
2:19.6	You have an iPhone 7. You have a Samsung 8.
2:23.1	You have Alexa or some sort of voice recognition device in your room.
2:26.9	And you know that 30 years ago the technology was a lot worse. You would play on a Nintendo.
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