The Mystery of the Bronze Age Collapse

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.2 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Sometime between between c. 1250 - c. 1150 BCE, civilization as we knew it simply... collapsed. Once-thriving empires fell one after another. Trade routes disintegrated. Literacy plummeted. Mysterious raiders from the sea pillaged city after city. In less than a century, the known world became a distant dream. So what exactly happened? Perhaps more disturbingly, what can the Bronze Age collapse tell us about the modern day?

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0:31.1	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained
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0:57.8	My name is Matt.
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1:05.7	Most importantly you are you, you are here and that makes this stuff they don't want
1:11.5	you to know.
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