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Tides of History

The Interconnected World of the Late Bronze Age

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.86.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

We know the late Bronze Age world eventually collapsed, but what made it a world in the first place? The answer lies in the intense connections - trade, politics, and culture - that tied together a vast area of the ancient world, from Mycenaean Greece to Elamite Iran and the Caucasus Mountains to the Upper Nile in Nubia.


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The goals perched on the rocks above the beach looked down at the sailors' toiling on the

0:21.2

wet sand.

0:22.2

They squawked and cawed and flapped their wings, the sound audible over the gentle splashing

0:26.9

of the waves.

0:28.6

For their part, the sailors grunted and heaved with the effort.

0:32.0

The metal ingots were heavy, and there were dozens of them.

0:34.6

Most of them the dull reddish orange of copper but some silvery tin.

0:39.2

Pauling them out of the ships hold one by one, carrying them down onto the beach and handing

0:43.6

them off to the waiting portors was hard work.

0:46.1

And they had to work fast.

0:47.4

The tide would be coming in soon, and their ship, currently high and dry on the sand, would

0:51.8

be floating away as soon as the blue waters of the Aegean rose high enough.

0:56.8

Over the ingots came the big ceramic storage jars.

0:59.9

They were heavy too, but at least they had carrying handles on each side.

1:03.6

The contents slashed and shifted as the sailors unloaded them, some full of oil, others

1:07.7

whine, others figs or pomegranates.

1:12.6

When man tripped as he hefted a jar up onto his shoulder, the container shattered when

1:16.5

it hit the hard sand, its precious contents oozing onto the beach.

1:21.3

That earned the sailor curses in half a dozen languages from the ship's master, and

1:24.8

merchant from Canaan.

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