The Bronze Age Collapse: How Civilisation Survived 1177BC (w/ ERIC CLINE) 

3 am... couldn't sleep ... then I switched the tube on and spent the most enthralling 70-plus minutes of my last decade. Having read the first 1177 book a few years ago, I truly loved the subject and your delivery.

As a fellow academic, there is nothing more relatable than a historian arguing against the subtitle of his own book, because it isn't *technically* true, but he lost the battle with his editors. 😂 20:41 I'm on team "Hammurabi's Shoes"!

I really enjoyed his previous book, and so will have a read of this new one.

It seems to me that Homer knew something about the Sea People based on two passages in the Odyssey. Menelaus tells Telemachus about his sojourn in Egypt after the Trojan War and the story that Odysseus tells the swine herd. The second story sounds similar to the Sea People attack on Egypt

In the third book, do reverse-chronological order. Start at the end at the beginning of the book, and each chapter goes backwards until you get to the end of the Bronze Age collapse. Making sure you focus on the long term implications of the Bronze Age collapse.

Erica, I’ve been watching RU-vid videos since 2006 and this is the first and only comment I’ve ever been moved to make on a video. Thank you so much for doing these interviews and for making them lively and enjoyable. You don’t get much marketable history content in a visual medium; and while I love a traditional history book, an upbeat, living color channel where you conduct these interviews is a real treat. Thank you very much.

I'll be honest, the Bronza Age Collapse is my "Roman Empire" in terms of that historical time period that dudes spend way too much thinking about. Thank you for feeding my fixation!

Dr. Cline! EXCELLENT questions and what a tremendous communicator of his work. AWESOME!!

This is so awesome!! I bought book moons ago and I can't believe you had this discussion. Was not expecting this. Made my day!

Yes, love this already! Edit: up until now I never had any interest in reading 1177BC exactly because of the clickbait-y title - I just thought it would be unnuanced. Now I have heard the author speak I think I am going to give it a shot. Just wish publishing houses would not push for titles like this.. gives an almost wrong impression of the book I gather.

Love seeing Eric Cline anywhere he shows up, always a great and interesting conversation.

a new book by Eric Cline? beautiful! the Bronze Age Collapse is one of my favorite eras!

Erica, another great interview.. This is personally my favourite of all because it covers so much of the same ground as the research behind 'Hades'. He comes across as such a decent man, too (and glad he corrected your doing yourself down at the end!) p.s. will be returning to Mycenae late October on research: get yourself and your partner back there!

Wonderful interview, really excited to read these books now. Hopefully Professor Cline will self publish the Armana letters manuscript on Kindle or similar if a publisher doesn't snap it up.

Thank you for all your amazing videos; you're awesome! ☺️

Thoroughly enjoyed this! Am subscribing as a result.

another exciting interview!!

My favorite channel on YT. Love this interview. Getting both books!

Excellent interview! Just ordered the first book.

Excellent episode! Really hope the Amarna letters book makes it out. I am certain there are many who would love it.

Brilliant interview! Love Dr Clines .. love this channel. Thank you

Great video! I loved Dr. Cline’s 1177, and I didn’t know there was a sequel.

Compared to 536 AD, the Bronze Age Collapse was a doozy. If Krakatoa kept it's chill back then, this text would probably be in Gaelic, Navajo or Latin. 😆

Entertaining as always

This was so good, Erica! I stopped midway and ordered his second book!

I’ve had Dr. Cline’s book 1177 on my wish-list for several years now- this interview clinched it. Ordered them both. Can’t wait. By the way, great (and I mean GREAT) interview!

Hello. I'm pretty new to this channel and eventhough I haven't seen that much of your videos yet I definitely love that you seem to interview allot of people on these topics that otherwise might not get the recognition they deserve if it wasn't for the internet and lengthy interviews like this that you do. Love stuff like this and keep it up 👍

That book is going straight in my basket!

Nice interview about a rather frightening topic, in that we seem to be heading towards a similar collapse. Book number 4, expanding upon what we’ve learned about collapse and how to deal with it, will be fantastic! All this knowledge and analysis could be put to use.

Hammurabi's Shoes is a faaaaaaar better title.

I would love to volunteer in Archeology dig, especially with my extensive knowledge of Bronze age and Iron age research.

You have wonderful guests like Dr. Cline & Stephen Fry, all of my favorites! Have you spoken to Irving Finkel?

I like Literary whiplash, very nice, adding it to the lexicon

On the change in organization from the first book to the second, it makes perfect sense, because the first book tells the tale of a interconnected trading system, while the second book takes the tale of isolated regions after the collapse of the interconnected trading system. If the third book takes the story to the death of Alexander, it will inevitably be a story of reestablishing and extending connections among ancient civilizations. For that reason, if a third form of organization is desired, maybe the place to start is with Alexander and how the world into which he was born came to be - and how he (or his army) changed it.

Now looks like i need to get the book now :)

I have been interested in Mycenae, the Sea Peoples and Schliemans findings at Troy for decades but only became interested in the Bronze Age Collapse around 2019. So little on the internet on the subject, but a few decent RU-vidrs have made a dent in the subject and a few books that didn't really cover the subject well IMO. I just purchased Eric's book and will be delving into it this afternoon! Great video!

I would never have heard of the sea people if I didn't have internet.

I love to see you two together!

Hi Erica, how did Bronze Age societies support and compensate their militaries? If you were the invader, plunder, slave harvests, and land grabs were apparently sufficient. Ig., Caesar in Gaul. But if you were the defender, assembling, supporting, and compensating large armies presents challenges, but yields little commodity gains.

Nice interview. One thought that I had is that you should follow this interview up with an expert who has written on 536 AD. Afterwards, you could have both authors on if you feel comfortable with that interview format.

Eric’s got that ancient historian rizz

Book 3 divide by aspects of culture. Religion, great thinkers, wars, arts, trade, technology so forth.

I really love this topic.

Dr. Cline did a great lecture for a company called Modern Scholar, on Archaeology and the Iliad. Its available on cd and i assume download. I remember firsr finding it at my library. Its great.

Have you ever talked to Godward? It would be a fun conversation to see you both talk.

Interesting I think the true end of the antiqity is not 476 AD, but it would be better 536 AD. It may be the irone age (antiqity) was between 1177 BC to 536 AD (instead of 476 AD). Phoenicians was succesful to restart the trading after 1177 BC. Only some city got seriouse problem in Phoenicia as Ugarit.

Amazing presenter, will definitely watch later.

Whenever I see his face I’m convinced he’s like a actor or something, he has a very recognisable face.

This subject really fascinates me.

Looking forward to the third part of the trilogi. But it should be called ”North of 1177” and deal with the Tollensee Battle as well as the Bronze Age Peak when the Boltic Sea took the Bronze Age Tourch from The Mediterranean Sea. Hope Eric Cline takes this into considerstion since the connection between the Boltic and the Meditteranean remains understudied altough there is a huge amount of new research on the Baltic sea Bronze Age

We just came out of the dark ane and now we have to go to the bronze age. Look, man, I'm going to the Golden Age right now.

Great dialogue 👌 👏 👍 I'm typically a devil's advocate here, but Eric is the man and a great educator who I've learned so much from and followed many generations throughout his career.

be from South America I always wonder. The Bronze Age Collapse only happened in what we today call Norden Africa and the Middle East right? Bronze Age live on for longer in South and Central America?

At 30:00, you ask us what third approach could follow the chronological and geographical? The answer lies a minute or two earlier, in your mentioning of Alexander, Buddha, etc. This is when distinct personalities emerge (as ta consistently dominant factor in history-making) for the first time. Although shrouded in myth, they're vividly individual... BIOGRAPHICAL is what you need for part three! Of course you won't be rehashing actual biographies of actual people very much, but by putting them into their CHRONOLOGICAL and GEOGRAPHICAL CONTEXTS you can write something almost like a biography of the world as it was during those centuries,,, with the individual human beings shining brightly and illuminating our path... It might be good literature-that is to say, more interesting-as well as correct politics to give equal time to females, and includes some gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, as well as mortals.

many such cases...

Civilisation?

Du vi no iv bronze Age cululter in mitrian si hav an konekson vit bronze Age cululter in china Zhang en Mycenaean Som konekson

I'm all for Sea Peoples and poor quality copper memes.

information of interest; to soMe;

So much circling around the matter without ever really getting to the core. Do Americans scholars have an institutional bias always focusing on the "biblical geography" and leaving out the whole picture of the European Bronze age stretching all the way to the North?

Forget that comment about you trying to be cute. You are cute as is.

Going forward, could you keep the camera on the beautiful dark haired English lass and not the old man?

Cutie

Good stuff. Would be better if the woman would stop giggling.

The Bronze Age collapse is pure fiction. Read Velikovsky's Ages in Chaos and Ramses ii and his Time.

omg 12 hour intro and the hands below your mug trying to be cute? No thank u, NO THANKS