How Some Civilisations Survived The Bronze Age Collapse With Eric Cline
61K views · Feb 24, 2026 · Education
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@Akamai2HI · 7 months ago
I always love to hear whatever Dr Cline has to say. Thanks for a wonderful discussion.
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@stevenholm_ozarks · 6 months ago
Thank you. As a self educated bumpkin, ranching across the world in the Ozarks, videos like these are priceless. As is Cline.
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@stephenanthony8711 · 7 months ago
When the economy goes south, traders become raiders real quick.
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@ArsinoesBestFriend · 7 months ago
Well, that was very pleasant. Thank you for all of your hard work.
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@nicolocabrera · 7 months ago
I love the Empire podcast and this 6-part series on the Late Bronze Age collapse. It's a shame that the YouTube versions are not labeled to indicate which is part 1, 2, etc.
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@aliuyar6365 · 7 months ago
Delightful conversation on the end of bronze age
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@RobertJones-ku4fg · 7 months ago
I met Eric in Athens at a conference about the bronze age collapse. He was so knowledgeable and an absolute gentleman.
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@gregorynixonAUTHOR · 7 months ago (edited)
Nice of Eric to confirm my educated guesses to do with the end of Hattusa in my historical novel, *The Diomedeia: Diomedes, the Peoples of the Sea, and the Fall of the Hittite Empire*! (Except I did include the Sea Peoples, but the Kaska were the final destroyers.) And, further, in a later book in the series, I have the fallen Mycenaeans join the Sea Peoples as they venture into the Aegean.
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@jonathonmills3563 · 7 months ago
It rarely gets mentioned that both the Mycenians and Hittites had large militaries. When the famine hit, and the collapse began, what happened to the thousands of soldiers and commanders, once paid now unpaid? They must have contributed to the collapse and subsequent sacking of cities as a marading armed military
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@benzz4960 · 6 months ago
Thank you Eric and guests. Always a treat
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@ajiusasikander1701 · 2 months ago
Listening to this excellent conversation I recall the opening scenes of the movie Iphigenia (1977, Cacoyannis) which depicts the Achaean army baking under the heat, half-starved and praying for a wind to ferry them to Troy. Wind brings clouds and clouds bring rain. He seems to have got it right.
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@sophitsa79 · 6 months ago
This video has perfect timing. I just started writing about this yesterday!
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