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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
By Eric H. ClineFrom $19.95 USD
Eric Cline's standard treatment of the Late Bronze Age collapse, the systems failure that wiped out the Hittite Empire, drove Egypt into decline, ended Mycenaean Greece, and ruptured the trading network that connected them. The book treats the collapse as a cascading failure rather than a single event and remains the most cited account.
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📄 304 pages⏱ ~3 hr read📅 2021
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Eric Cline's standard treatment of the Late Bronze Age collapse, the systems failure that wiped out the Hittite Empire, drove Egypt into decline, ended Mycenaean Greece, and ruptured the trading network that connected them. The book treats the collapse as a cascading failure rather than a single event and remains the most cited account.
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