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? Check out our new store! https://teespring.com/stores/the-history-shop Get your Sea Peoples | Late Bronze Age Merch below! Mugs: https://teespring.com/new-sea-peoples-mediterranean?pid=658&cid=102950 Hoodies | Shirts | Tank Tops: https://teespring.com/get-sea-peoples-mediterranean?pid=212&cid=5819 Get your Hittite Merch below! Mugs: https://teespring.com/HittiteEmpireMug?pid=658&cid=102950&sid=front Shirts | Tank Tops | Hoodies: https://teespring.com/hittite-empire-shirt?pid=2&cid=2397 Trojan War Merch Below! Mugs: https://teespring.com/trojan-war-coffee-mug?pid=658&cid=102950 Tank Tops | Shirts | Hoodies: https://teespring.com/TrojanWarShirt?pid=2&cid=2397 Support Dr. Eric Cline at the links below! Personal web page: https://ehcline.com Get all of his books here at his Amazon Author page: https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AEric+H.+Cline&s=relevancerank&text=Eric+H.+Cline&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1 GW pages: https://cnelc.columbian.gwu.edu/eric-h-cline https://anthropology.columbian.gwu.edu/eric-h-cline https://gwu.academia.edu/EricCline Check out his lectures on the Great Courses! They are superb. https://www.thegreatcourses.com/professors/eric-cline/ Audio Book Formats of his work on audible. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Eric+Cline&i=audible&ref=nb_sb_noss_2 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  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001EI3IVU?pLink=3b78743c-eb66-41&ref=adblp13nvvxx_0_1_ti The History of Ancient Israel: From the Patriarchs Through the Romans https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001JHT8CY?pLink=95b43e3f-f425-41&ref=adblp13nvvxx_0_1_ti --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/antiquity-middlages/support