What Happened After Civilization Collapsed

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.7 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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What happens after everything falls apart? The end of the Bronze Age was a moment when an entire network of ancient civilizations collapsed, leaving behind only clues to what happened. Today, scholars have pieced together a story where everything from climate change to mass migration to natural disasters played a role. What the end of the Bronze Age can teach us about avoiding catastrophe and what comes after collapse.

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0:35.2	There's a story of a people who lived thousands of years ago.
0:57.7	Back in the era when King Tut walked the Earth, when the legendary city of Troy was thriving
1:04.1	and when Hamarabi was creating his coat.
1:10.0	No one knows exactly who they were or where they came from.
1:14.5	They are only known as the sea peoples.
1:21.2	It is said that wherever the sea peoples went, they brought with them more and destruction.
1:27.4	They came from the sea and they walked it and none could stand against them.
1:33.4	They laid their hands upon the lands as far as the circuit of the Earth.
1:38.4	Their hearts were confident and trusting as they said our plans would succeed.
1:48.6	Not long after the sea peoples arrived, the empires they encountered from Greece to Egypt
1:53.8	to Afghanistan began to crumble.
1:57.6	An entire civilization nearly as complex as ours connected by trade, intermarriage and
2:02.5	a thriving economic system broke down seemingly overnight.
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