Why the Bronze Age Collapse matters today | Dr. Eric Cline | If Civilization Collapsed Would We Know?

Ladies and Gentlemen we arrive finally to the part of our series that you have all been waiting for! And that is the Bronze Age Collapse and here to guide us through it is none other than Dr. Eric Cline, the rock star archaeologist, historian and author of none other than 1177 BC!

He will give us an overview history of the collapse along with sharing his own personal views on the subject! Guiding us briefly through archaeology, trade, national politics, and contact in the ancient Mediterranean we will get a nice picture of the Bronze Age and how it all came crashing down in a perfect storm of events. But what is ever more awesome is he even gives us the inside scoop on why he wrote 1177 BC? And how he did it!

But at the end of this episode we come to our modern world and Dr. Cline explains why the Bronze Age Collapse matters today? What we need to look at when comparing it to our modern world and the current events and impacts affecting our world? 

Did the peoples living through the Bronze Age Collapse know they were living in a collapse? And he asks a delicate and intense question and that is if civilization collapsed today would we know?

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Dr. Cline on the Modern Scholar:

History of Ancient Greece

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Scholar-History-Ancient-Greece/dp/B001EI3IW4

Archaeology and the Iliad: The Trojan War in Homer and History 

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The History of Ancient Israel: From the Patriarchs Through the Romans

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