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Episode 5. Collapse of the Bronze Age

Casting Through Ancient Greece

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The Climate Change of the Misonian World

It's argued that the climate was changing within the ancient world, becoming drier and hotter. This then led to a drought, which in turn would have caused crop failures across the regions. In egypt, evidence at karna indicated that measures were being taken to deal with the shortages the populations were facing. But we don't get a uniform picture across the mediterranean world. When we look at the lineab tablets from the final year at pylos, there appears to be no indication of rationing when it coes to grains and cereals. So in effect, the simultaneous destruction of the misonian palaces is more likely a series of destructions over many decades, caused

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