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If you are interested in the collapse of the bronze age with some comments about the sea people

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M4LRHJlijVU

Eric clines lectures are really cool

"1177 B.C. The Year Civilization Collapsed" by Cline is also good. Focusing on the "sea peoples" is almost a distraction. The real story is about the world of city-states and trading relationships in 2000 B.C. and the sudden collapse, across the Eastern Med, of those same states resulting in several hundred year dark ages.

I like this video from Historia Civilis on youtube. It’s a little more casual and shorter but it does address those major points.

https://youtu.be/aq4G-7v-_xI

sorry, meant to say 1200 B.C. - 1100 B.C., not 2000 B.C. (or B.C.E. if you like.)

And one more resource with the history of many civilizations: https://www.youtube.com/c/FallofCivilizationsPodcast

I especially enjoyed https://youtu.be/d2lJUOv0hLA, as I had no idea the first cities were already so advanced and lasted for so many centuries.

EDIT: fixed youtube link.

Getting "This video isn't available anymore" on the youtube link

Thoroughly enjoyed these. There is the tv version (not podcast) with nice video alongside each of the current podcasts. Sometimes they release a podcast and it takes a month or two for the tv one to come out.

Whenever someone mentions the age of Stonehenge or the Egyptian pyramids, it's fun to point out that we have tax records from Sumeria from before either of those.

I'm watching the second link. Very very well made.

It's astonishing to me that there's so much high-quality stock footage of the area that someone can create such a high-quality historical documentary while only calling it a "podcast".

I've watched all the Fall of Civilizations episodes because they are really well done. An amazing amount of work went into them to good effect. I am not a historian so I can't judge if they are alt-history or not, like the episode "Easter Island - Where Giants Walked" which completely refutes Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel and the theory that the inhabitants destroyed their environment.

This podcast/series is so intensely good it is hard to describe to people. Partially because it is devoid of any commercial intent, it's simply raw history presented in an extremely accessible digest.

Excellent lecture. The slick TED talk guys at the beginning kind of freaked me out but Eric Cline did not disappoint. This guy is a beast. Wish I had known about him back when I was teaching Art Hist.

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