I'm John Bachelors with Professor Eric Klein. The book is after 1177, lessons learned about how you cope with, how you survive, how you don't, what resilience is when the world has met a

catastrophe that wipes out crops, wipes out people, reduces populations by up to 70, 80, 90 percent.

And we come now to the Minoans, which we know as Crete, and the Mycenians which we know as not the mainland, a series of islands that are attached,

the Peloponnese, the mainland where Athens is, but this is early on.

And so the question is, how did they survive or did they and here

and professor I divide into the my sinions and the Minoans on Crete. The Minoans were builders. Mycenians were okay builders but they

were they inherited a lot if I read this correctly. The Minoans were building huge operations, sort of like Belt and

Road Initiative. Why that looked to be a creation of genuine superiority.

Why did it fall apart?

Well, these are good questions.

But what we've got basically in the late Bronze Age, we've got the Minoans on Crete and Sir Arthur Evans

excavated the site of Canalsos, but on, and it is on the Greek mainland mainly that we've

got the Mycenians,

sites like Mycenae where Agamemnon may have ruled

and Tyrans and Pylos.

And they also do have pretty amazing structures like the

Landgate at Mycenae. They're actually kind of rivals, the Minoans and

the Mycenaeans at that time. They're both known overseas. The Egyptians called

the Minoans Kefdieu and the Mycenans Tanaya. And eventually, actually, the the my sonians take over Crete before the end and so that

may have helped contribute to the demise of the Manoans but overall in my category the

the menowans but overall in my categorization the menowans and my snaions are down towards the bottom

they're almost examples of what not to do

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