WHEN EMPIRES FALL DOWN THEN AND NOW: 8/8: 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 | I'm John Bachelor with Professor Eric Klein. The new book is a sequel. The first book I recommend is updated now. |
| 0:10.0 | 1177 BC, the year civilization collapsed the second book the sequel just |
| 0:16.0 | published after 1177 BC the survival of civilizations like a really good melodrama. It gives us a moment at the end that if we change |
| 0:26.8 | our ways we can get out of this trouble. So we come to how do we get out of this trouble? |
| 0:32.3 | I'm going to lead with the survivors who were |
| 0:35.2 | sophisticated, the Phoenicians and the Cypriots. Now the Cypriots are |
| 0:40.1 | going to set aside for a moment because they had a wonderful island but the Phoenicians |
| 0:43.7 | didn't have anything like an island. |
| 0:45.2 | They were vulnerable to all of the invasion routes of the Levant. |
| 0:49.6 | They were also shipboard. |
| 0:51.5 | In other words, great risk all the time in the Mediterranean but they |
| 0:55.4 | were anti-fragual what does that mean again professor you mentioned it before |
| 0:59.8 | right so anti-fragual borrowed from from Nacim Nicholas Taleeb, meaning that they flourish in the time of chaos. |
| 1:06.3 | They take advantage of the chaotic situation and expand out and take over. |
| 1:12.4 | They are opportunists, as I think you've said, and that's exactly what they do here. |
| 1:18.8 | And in fact, in going out into the Mediterranean and getting new sources of raw materials, like going all the way to |
| 1:27.6 | Spain for silver, as it looks like. |
| 1:30.5 | They are actually able to withstand the neo-Assyrians by literally buying them off. |
| 1:37.7 | They are in tribute each year to Shamen Diesel the Third and others and as a result are not attacked and |
| 1:44.8 | destroyed like some of the other cities so they managed to use their I would say |
| 1:52.0 | the advantage they have and access to the Mediterranean to flourish and |
| 1:57.7 | even withstand the assaults by the Assyrians. |
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