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SUMMARY:LECTURE: 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed
DESCRIPTION:CHICAGO\n\n1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed\nDr. Eric H
 . Cline\, Professor of Classics and Anthropology\, Chair of the Department
  of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations\, and Director 
 of the Capitol Archaeological Institute at The George Washington Universit
 y\, in Washington D.C.\n\nFor more than three hundred years during the Lat
 e Bronze Age\, from about 1500 BC to 1200 BC\, the Mediterranean region pl
 ayed host to a complex international world in which Egyptians\,Mycenaeans\
 , Minoans\, Hittites\, Assyrians\, Babylonians\, Cypriots\, and Canaanites
  all interacted\, creating a cosmopolitan and globalized world-system such
  as has only rarely been seen before the current day. It may have been thi
 s very internationalism that contributed to the apocalyptic disaster that 
 ended the Bronze Age. When the end came\, as it did after centuries of cul
 tural and technological evolution\, the civilized and international world 
 of the Mediterranean regions came to a dramatic halt in a vast area stretc
 hing from Greece and Italy in the west to Egypt\, Canaan\, and Mesopotamia
  in the east. Large empires and small kingdoms\, that had taken centuries 
 to evolve\, collapsed rapidly. With their end came the world’s first rec
 orded Dark Ages.\nIt was not until centuries later that a new cultural ren
 aissance emerged in Greece and the other affected areas\, setting the stag
 e for the evolution of Western society as we know it today. Blame for the 
 end of the Late Bronze Age is usually laid squarely at the feet of the so-
 called Sea Peoples\, known to us from the records of the Egyptian pharaohs
  Merneptah and Ramses III. However\, as was the case with the fall of the 
 Roman Empire\, the end of the Bronze Age empires in this region was not th
 e result of a single invasion\, but of multiple causes. The Sea Peoples ma
 y well have been responsible for some of the destruction that occurred at 
 the end of the Late Bronze Age\, but it is much more likely that a concate
 nation of events\, both human and natural — including earthquake storms\
 , droughts\, rebellions\, and systems collapse — coalesced to create a 
 “perfect storm” that brought the age to an end.\n\nDr. Eric H. Cline i
 s Professor of Classics and Anthropology at The George Washington Universi
 ty\, in Washington DC. A Fulbright scholar\, National Geographic Explorer\
 , and Pulitzer Prize nominee\, Dr. Cline holds degrees in Classical Archae
 ology\, Near Eastern Archaeology\, and Ancient History\, from Dartmouth\, 
 Yale\, and the University of Pennsylvania. An active field archaeologist\,
  he has excavated and surveyed in Israel\, Egypt\, Jordan\, Cyprus\, Greec
 e\, Crete\, and the United States. A three-time winner of the Biblical Arc
 haeology Society's "Best Popular Book on Archaeology" award (2001\, 2009\,
  and 2011) and winner of the 2014 "Best Popular Book" award from the Ameri
 can Schools of Oriental Research for 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collap
 sed\, Dr. Cline has written (authored\, co-authored\, or edited) a total o
 f sixteen books\, which have been published by prestigious presses includi
 ng Princeton\, Oxford\, Cambridge\, Michigan\, and National Geographic. Hi
 s books have been translated\, or are currently being translated\, into th
 irteen languages\, including French\, German\, Italian\, Dutch\, Spanish\,
  Portuguese\, Korean\, Chinese\, Japanese\, Russian\, Serbian\, Bulgarian\
 , and Hungarian.
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