""Life was pretty good in those days, he says, at least if you lived in one of the lands around the Mediterranean and Near East that constituted what he calls the 'ancient G8.'""
""His surprising popularity for a historian of the Bronze Age owes in part to his willingness to draw comparisons with that time and our own.""
The late Bronze Age featured a flourishing interconnected world, particularly among Mediterranean and Near Eastern societies. This era included prominent civilizations such as the Mycenaeans, Minoans, Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Cypriots, Egyptians, and Canaanites. Despite their prosperity, this interconnectedness ultimately led to a collapse around 1177 BC, as explored by Eric Cline. His work highlights the factors contributing to this dissolution and draws parallels between ancient and modern globalization, emphasizing that the current era is not entirely unprecedented.
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