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Season 4 Mailbag: Prehistory and Early History

Tides of History

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The Impact of Climate Change on the Aegean

The Bronze Age near East and Eastern Mediterranean is a really good place for us to investigate that in a rigorous way. The idea that there are bad things in the past that we're through with or that we wouldn't possibly make that same mistake now, I think is demonstrably wrong. It's not as simple as something bad happens and bad things happen to people. We shouldn't assume that just because something bad happens in the climate that that destroys the societies.

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