After the Bronze Age Collapse: The Empire Fell, Its Name Didn't

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Around 1100 BC, an Assyrian king taxed a ruler he called the king of the land of Hatti, a century after the Hittite empire was gone. What came after the collapse of the Late Bronze Age, and why did some places carry on while others never came back?

This episode tests four answers that are often given (scale, the palace, trade and an old name) region by region: Ugarit, Hattusa and the Greek palaces; Tiryns; Carchemish and the Neo-Hittite kingdoms; Taita, king of Palistin, and the debate at Tell Tayinat; Cyprus; the Phoenician cities and the alphabet; Lefkandi; the highland villages of Canaan and Megiddo's "New Canaan"; Assyria and Egypt. The close gives one reading of the evidence, never a proven cause.

Chapters
0:00 The king of a land that was gone
2:33 The ones that did not come back
4:11 The heirs of the Hittites
10:56 Cyprus
13:49 The cities by the sea
16:31 Villages, a hall, and the old empires
21:06 What the tests suggest

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