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Jiang describes the Bronze Age world around 1200 BCE as an interconnected trade zone linking Mycenaean Greece, Anatolia, Canaan, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran, Afghanistan, India, the Mediterranean, Iberia, and Britain.
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1200 BCE
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...okay, the high Bronze Age, the late Bronze Age, 1400 to 1200 BCE, you can see this entire world is interconnected. And what you..."
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"...want to paint you a picture of the world in about 1200 BCE. So, in this world, the center of this world is what..."
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"And of course, remember, these are the steppes. So, for Mycenaean Greece, you also had the Mediterranean. And over here are the islands of..."
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"Copper is mainly found in Cyprus, and Crete, and also in Anatolia. Now, meaning, and what this means is, in order to make bronze,..."
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"...okay, the high Bronze Age, the late Bronze Age, 1400 to 1200 BCE, you can see this entire world is interconnected. And what you..."
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"...lot more complicated, all right? So let's start in the year 1200 BCE. And this is... Towards the end of the Bronze Age, right?..."
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"...Bronze Age collapse, right? And we talked about how, in about 1200 BCE, Greece was united in a place called Mycenaean Greece, okay? So,..."
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"...few decades later, they were conquered by outside powers. Okay? After 1200 BCE, Egypt ceased to be a hegemon. A power. So, this is..."
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"...right. Okay. That's fine. All right. So, in this world, about 1200 BCE, we have something called a, permanent, hereditary, elite. Okay? Permanent, hereditary,..."
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The Bronze Age Collapse is not treated as a freak disaster.
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