![]() ![]() This complicated process has no one explanation - and more to the point, no one cause. And in any case, the collapse of civilization among the distinct but interconnected Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, Cypriots, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Assyrians, and Babylonians of the Bronze Age took not a year, he explains, but more like a century. The title, which seems to have been the result of the publishing industry’s invincible enthusiasm for naming books after years, may soon need an update: as Cline admits, it reflects a convention among scholars about how to label the titular event that has just been revised, and has since been revised back. Cline makes his own case in the book 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed. What the specialists don’t quite agree on is how it happened. The Bronze Age lasted a long time, from roughly 3300 to 1200 BC - at the end of which, ancient-history specialists agree, civilization collapsed. But of course, his prospects for survival in that era - or indeed anyone’s - depend on which part of it we’re talking about. ![]() I’m sure I would not live more than about 48 hours, but it’d be a good 48 hours.” He may give himself too little credit: as he goes on to demonstrate in the hour that follows, he has as thorough an all-around knowledge of life in the Bronze Age as anyone alive in the 21st century. “If I could be reincarnated backwards,” he says in the lecture above, “I would choose to live back then. ![]()
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