Review of 1177 B.C.- The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline
An academic effort to explain the sudden end of the Bronze Age
This is an academic book that strives to be a popular history that would please a wider audience, but doesn’t quite get there. It is about the Mediterranean political and economic system that collapsed at the end of the Bronze Age, an unprecedented network of trade and common (elite) civilization of extraordinarily fertile cultures and prosperity. As th…
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