The Bronze Age Collapse

The Ancients

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🗓️ 13 January 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The Bronze Age Collapse was one of the most cataclysmic events in human history. Over just a few decades, civilisations across the Mediterranean from Greece and Egypt to Mesopotamia and Babylon abruptly deteriorated, bringing an end to one epoch and birthing another. But what exactly happened? And what caused these powerful and interconnected civilisations to come crashing down simultaneously?

In today’s episode of the Ancients, Tristan Hughes speaks to Eric Cline to explore the origins of the crisis which birthed the Iron Age and examine the role played by invasions, drought and famine in causing it.

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0:29.0	co-dot-k. It's the ancients on history hit. I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's
0:47.3	episode while we are talking about one of the most destructive cataclysmic
0:51.9	events in human history. We know it today as the Bronze Age
0:55.9	collapse which occurred at the close of the second millennium BC when several thriving
1:01.8	Bronze Age civilizations across the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East
1:06.3	abruptly collapsed over just a few decades.
1:10.1	Itites, Mycenaeans, Minoans, Trojans, Babylonians, and so on.
1:15.1	So what exactly happened?
1:17.0	Why did so many of these powerful interconnected civilizations all come crashing down so quickly and so close to one another.
1:25.0	Well, to explain all, today I'm joined by the professor and best-selling author Eric Klein from the George Washington University.
1:33.3	Now Eric believes that there was a perfect storm of different catastrophes
1:37.8	that ultimately led to this Bronze Age collapse,
1:40.8	as he eloquently explains in today's episode. I really do hope you enjoy and
1:46.6	here's Eric.
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