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2020-07-17 22:40:15
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2026-06

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In the lotus position, sitting perfectly still, contemplating the collapse of human civilization.  

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The Bronze Age Collapse (approximately 1200 B.C.E.)

Just casually thinkin bout the end of the world. No reason. Patreon | http://patreon.com/HistoriaCivilis Donate | http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=KTEBKRSR3N4VQ Merch | http://teespring.com/stores/historiacivilis Twitter | http://twitter.com/HistoriaCivilis Website | http://historiacivilis.com Sources: The Medinet Habu Inscription | https://bit.ly/2Ba2Lvf David O'Connor & Stephen Quirke, "Mysterious Lands" | https://amzn.to/3jdQOWu --- Eric H. Cline, "1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed" | https://amzn.to/2ClWgpO Robert Drews, "The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C." | https://amzn.to/2CkJ7NC Paul Kriwaczek, "Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization" | https://amzn.to/2Wra8G4 Oliver Dickinson, "The Aegean From Bronze Age to Iron Age: Continuity and Change Between the Twelfth and Eighth Centuries B.C." | https://amzn.to/3h8ar0r Music: "Mell's Parade," by Broke For Free "Sad Cyclops," by Podington Bear "Infados," by Kevin MacLeod "Heliograph," by Chris Zabriskie "Hallon," by Christian Bjoerklund We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.

Comments

Jack Downes

Thank you for this blessing 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Naomi Skilling

Two words that automatically engage any archeologist's fight or flight response: sea peoples

Chris Persen

Woman: I bet he's up thinking about cheating Man: WHO were the sea peoples??

James Baker

Great video. Just wish we knew more about the sea people. Knowing that we may never know about them is just not worth knowing,

Pablo

And there I was, trying to place the first Roman emperor in Cyprus :P thanks for the upload!

David Rofe

Great work. Well done.

Robbert den Hollander

Thank you for once again an amazing video :) I like the fact that you look at multiple theories. Keep up the great work!

LiterallyJudas

Not to speculate on the one piece of hard evidence, but do you think that the increase in solid lines of infantry over chariots influenced the later move to phalanxes as the dominant method of fighting? Or is there too much of a time gap for it to be plausible.

Brotaku

Great work as always.

Historia Civilis

So, this exact question came up in my research, and it's actually really interesting. There was a story that the Greeks told of the descendants of Heracles coming from across the sea and conquering the southern bit of Greece. This is called the Dorian Invasion. It's hard to disentangle fact from myth, and there's some people that think the Dorian Invasion didn't even happen at all, but *IF* it happened, it may have been the Sea Peoples. If that's the case, then the people of southern Greece would have been descendants of the Sea Peoples, and perhaps their way of fighting with heavy-infantry was some kind of bastardization of Sea Peoples tactics. (Historians have no direct proof of this, this is all 100% guesswork.)

Simon Wolfe

Another 10/10. Something I always wonder about is the time directly after the BAC. Who survived and why? What stories/mythic histories can we trace to that time? Thanks again for the work!

Sebastian

If y'all are interested in an in-depth analysis of the economy/trade of the period and the systems collapse theory I would recommend ExtraCredits' series on the BAC

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Great work man

William Knapp

Solid. Geopolitics (in the correct use of the word, not the "I watch CNN and know what a salad fork is" way) is something that people don't well understand and is a fascinating area of study. I might encourage , "Noah's Flood: European Migration", "Columbian Exchange: Smallpox Edition", "The Migration Period a.k.a. O.G. Game of Thrones", "The Black Death: The Labor Revolution", "Little Ice Age: Labor Revolution Part 2", and, my personal favorite, "Thermohaline Circulation and Urbanization".

Brian Connors

I was mad when I saw it wasn't a roman video, but as always, great work! To my surprise, this might be my favorite one yet. I didn't know anything about the Bronze Age Collapse and you have such a way of informing in a fun way. Kudos!

Sander

Keep up the absolute great work!

Drunkrobot

As someone with a soft spot for the Early Middle Ages, I can second the interest in post-collapse periods. As for who survived the BAC, we certainly see Phoenicia rise to fill the power vacuum left behind, and the Israelites emerge from the Canaanites. Out East, Iranian peoples like the Parthians and Persians displace the Non-Indo-European groups there. So at the very least this collapse sees the beginnings of the alphabet, Abrahamic religion, and Persia.