WHEN EMPIRES FALL DOWN THEN AND NOW: 5/8: After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations by Eric H. Cline (Author)
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🗓️ 12 August 2024
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https://www.amazon.ca/After-1177-B-C-Survival-Civilizations/dp/0691192138
At the end of the acclaimed history 1177 B.C., many of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean lay in ruins, undone by invasion, revolt, natural disasters, famine, and the demise of international trade. An interconnected world that had boasted major empires and societies, relative peace, robust commerce, and monumental architecture was lost and the so-called First Dark Age had begun. Now, in After 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the compelling story of what happened next, over four centuries, across the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean world. It is a story of resilience, transformation, and success, as well as failures, in an age of chaos and reconfiguration.
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I on the World. |
| 0:05.0 | This is CBS I on the World. |
| 0:08.0 | Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:12.0 | This is CBS I on the world. I'm John Bachelor continuing my conversation with Professor Eric Klein. |
| 0:18.0 | His new book, After 1177 BC, The Survival of civilizations, a sequel to his original idea, |
| 0:27.0 | 1177 BC, the year civilization collapsed, which is now revised and updated, everyone to read both books together. |
| 0:35.6 | It's important to note that the Bronze Age was globalization, trade of seven or eight |
| 0:41.8 | empires intermixed in the Eastern Mediterranean trade routes established making bronze, tin from Afghanistan, copper from Cyprus and other mines in the Mediterranean Basin, the same for clothing, the same for spices, the same for gold, coming from all over. |
| 1:01.2 | Adam Smith would approve of the 13, the Bronze Age. |
| 1:05.8 | However, it then crashed suddenly with a combination that the professor can list, |
| 1:11.2 | but they were all bad things happening at the same time. |
| 1:14.1 | Some survived and some didn't. |
| 1:16.2 | We talked about the survivors so far. |
| 1:18.6 | Now we're going to go to the failures. |
| 1:20.6 | The Hittites, the reason you don't know that name is because they failed. |
| 1:24.0 | Professor, the Hittites were Turkey, were Anatolian Heights. |
| 1:28.0 | They had a vast area to develop. |
| 1:31.0 | They were a powerful empire empire and they failed. My reading of your |
| 1:36.8 | explication because there are a series of decisions that they make and from |
| 1:41.5 | their capital Hattusa is that they had bad leadership. |
| 1:45.5 | What else went wrong with them? |
| 1:46.8 | Thank you. |
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