Why Did the Bronze Age World Collapse? Interview with Professor Eric Cline

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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If we know one thing about the Bronze Age world, we know that it collapsed. But what made it a world? And why did it fall apart? There's nobody better to ask than Professor Eric Cline, who literally wrote the book - 1177 BC - on the end of the Bronze Age.

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0:13.2	Hi, everybody.
0:20.2	From Wondering, welcome to another episode of Tides of History.
0:22.5	I'm Patrick Weiman.
0:23.5	Thanks for joining me.
0:24.5	Over the past year or so, I've talked a great deal about the Bronze Age world, especially
0:29.0	the world of the late Bronze Age in the near east and eastern Mediterranean.
0:33.5	This was a time of long-distance trade and diplomacy, powerful empires and kings who left behind
0:37.9	massive monuments to their achievements and their vanity, everywhere from Greece to
0:41.7	Mesopotamia to Egypt.
0:43.8	At this point in the popular imagination, I think it's fair to say, anybody who has even
0:47.3	a passing familiarity with this Bronze Age world knows that it collapsed.
0:51.4	But what makes a world?
0:52.8	And what brings a world to an end?
0:55.2	There's nobody better suited to answering those questions than today's guest, Professor
0:58.6	Eric Klein is a professor of classical and ancient Near Eastern studies and of anthropology
1:03.5	at George Washington University, where he's also director of the Capital Archaeological
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