The thought that monotheism was a result of the collapse is both not true systemically (systemic considerations was the approach to the book and certainly most societies remained polytheistic) and it certainly should not be forwarded as a positive cultural development, at least not without qualifications. is to examine the causes of the near simultaneous destruction and disappearance of five flourishing eastern Mediterranean civilizations including their 47 largest settlements. I felt the pharaohs, Hittite kings, ancient rulers of Cypriot, merchants, and ambassadors come alive and talk to me through those pages.
Fortunately, folks like those Cline mentions constantly in this book, researchers, anthropologists, whatever their motivations, are the ones that helped us recover this wonderful history so that we may indeed better contemplate our own fate. ERIC H. CLINE is the former Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and current Director of the Capitol Archaeological Institute at The George Washington University. Welcome back. These civilizations were in contact and had relations in war and peace. Read 718 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. One thing a bit troubling is that at the end of the book Cline assumes that the destruction was a catalyst for positive developments, in which he lists monotheism.
His final remarks were succinct, concise, and pose an interesting thought. The linkages between recently dug up newly translated tablets from Ugarit along with pollen core samples, radio-carbon dating, pot shard analysis, and sunken treasure is astounding. Regardless of the catchy title of the book, the author acknowledges that 1177 B.C. It became a garbled mess after awhile.Like frogs around a pond civilizations and city states dotted the Mediterranean over 3200 years ago.
But instead it was how effectively they could relate to each other on broad scales, and how much scientific and mathematical knowledge and their ability to leverage knowledge in the face of societal challenges. At least with a book like This book is an attempt to summarize and even popularize several streams of research of classical scholars around the collapse of the late Bronze Age around the transition from the 13th to the 12th centuries BCE. The thriving economy and cultures of the late second millennium B.C., which had stretched from Greece to Egypt and Mesopotamia, suddenly ceased to exist, along with writing systems, technology, and monumental architecture. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Egypt and the Hittite Empire in northern Turkey are the most important empires back in the Late Bronze Age when something happens to collapse the international sea trade that has been going on for centuries. As an ancient history/archaeology nerd, this fulfilled everything I needed. His argument is that a lot of different factors contributed to the end of bronze age civilizations. They were Egypt, The Canaanites, the Hittites, the Minoans, the Mycenae, the Assyrians all connected through the Mediterranean. But hell, I imagine a lot of prospective readers share them.
It’s monocausal. This book should be required reading to anyone interested in the bronze age and antiquity.Cline starts with an over-view of the collapse of the Late Bronze Age, and then challenges the common view of what might have caused it. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades.
Contemporary young adult literature has often led the way in depicting the real-life issues facing teens from all backgrounds.
This book makes it easy for a non-academic to follow all the resources and reasoning, and understand the period that much better. And even more was incorporated into the telling of the story, starting centuries before the collapse. It's not exactly a narrative history but more of a Cliff's Notes version of all the scholarship that has been done on the theories of the Late Bronze Age collapse.
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