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A review by jonfaith
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline
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Complexity theory, especially in terms of visualizing a nonlinear progression and a series of stressors rather than a single driver, is therefore advantageous both in explaining the collapse at the end of the Late Bronze Age and in providing a way forward for continuing to study this catastrophe.
Cline is a wonderful lecturer as evidenced on YouTube. His writing however leaves a lot to be desired. He engages the prevailing theory that Sea People overthrew the Eastern Mediterranean civilizations of the Late Bronze Age (LBA). Cline asserts that it likely wasn't a singular force or linked series of intentional conquests but rather an entire cluster of events including drought and earthquakes. This was all compounded by the interdependence of this geographical region. It still isn't very convincing. Cline also wants to place the Fall of Troy in the LBA and has Homer only retelling such 400 hundred years later. This is an interesting speculation but it remains that.
Cline is a wonderful lecturer as evidenced on YouTube. His writing however leaves a lot to be desired. He engages the prevailing theory that Sea People overthrew the Eastern Mediterranean civilizations of the Late Bronze Age (LBA). Cline asserts that it likely wasn't a singular force or linked series of intentional conquests but rather an entire cluster of events including drought and earthquakes. This was all compounded by the interdependence of this geographical region. It still isn't very convincing. Cline also wants to place the Fall of Troy in the LBA and has Homer only retelling such 400 hundred years later. This is an interesting speculation but it remains that.