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A review by polanabear
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline
4.0
The book is a list of archeological finds, thoroughly detailed but a bit dry and without the best narrative arc to connect them.
It does do a good job showing how interconnected and advanced the cultures in the eastern Mediterranean was at 1500 BC. Sadly, despite the title, very little of the book was on why these civilizations collapsed so quickly within a few decades of each other. The author listed a few of the usual suspects in a cursory way at the end of the book, and it was unsatisfying way to end.
2024 update - I reread the book in its latest version and it does more conclusively point to climate change - a mega drought that lasted 300 years - as the main culprit for mass civilization collapse. Satisfying answer, ratings updated
It does do a good job showing how interconnected and advanced the cultures in the eastern Mediterranean was at 1500 BC. Sadly, despite the title, very little of the book was on why these civilizations collapsed so quickly within a few decades of each other. The author listed a few of the usual suspects in a cursory way at the end of the book, and it was unsatisfying way to end.
2024 update - I reread the book in its latest version and it does more conclusively point to climate change - a mega drought that lasted 300 years - as the main culprit for mass civilization collapse. Satisfying answer, ratings updated