Speaker 1: The Bronze Age Mediterranean is one of the most interesting
Speaker 1: periods in world history for countless reasons. Egypt was thriving,
Speaker 1: Mesopotamia was popping off, the people of North Africa and
Speaker 1: Asia Minor were inventing so many things humanity needed to
Speaker 1: be awesome, and Mysonian and Minoan Greeks were giving Homeric
Speaker 1: bards the inspiration for the Iliad and the Odyssey. And
Speaker 1: then something happened. The history bros Will tell you that.
Speaker 2: Out of the blue, entire civilizations collapsed and disappeared, that
Speaker 2: to this day it remains an utter mystery.
Speaker 1: What happened to the Mysoneans.
Speaker 2: Just poof gone without a trace.
Speaker 1: They'll tell you that Greece descended into a dark age
Speaker 1: where they lost the ability to read or write, and
Speaker 1: that from that dark and dreary period of nothingness homer
Speaker 1: sprung fully formed like Athena from Zeus's head. What actually
Speaker 1: happened is obviously far more complicated, considerably less mysterious and alien,
Speaker 1: but far far more interesting, mostly because well, it's the
Speaker 1: real history of so many ancient people, and at least
Speaker 1: in Greece laid the groundwork for what would go on
Speaker 1: to become the ancient Greece that gave us the Alien
Speaker 1: and the Odyssey and everything that we have come to love.
Speaker 1: And while maybe it wasn't quite so mysterious, it was
Speaker 1: incredibly dramatic. Throughout the month of April, I'll be bringing
Speaker 1: you episodes covering a brief history of the Bronze Age
Speaker 1: in Greece and beyond, and what happened across the Mediterranean
Speaker 1: that was dramatic enough that it became known as the
Speaker 1: Bronze Age Collapse. You might be surprised to hear that
Speaker 1: it's far more relevant today than ever before, even more
Speaker 1: than I realized before I started digging, because it turns
Speaker 1: out the collapse of the Bronze Age Mediterranean can tell
Speaker 1: us a lot about where our current society is heading.
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Speaker 1: Bronze Age Collapse begin April second,