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Within decades after the wealthy interconnected world of 1200 BCE, Mycenaean Greece was destroyed, the Hittite Empire was destroyed, Canaan disappeared, and Egypt lost hegemonic status.
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Mycenaean Greece
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...these established kingdoms throughout the Middle East and Europe. You have Mycenaean Greece. You had the Hittite Empire in Anatolia, which is present -day..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...these established kingdoms throughout the Middle East and Europe. You have Mycenaean Greece. You had the Hittite Empire in Anatolia, which is present -day..."
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Mycenaean Greeks and Hittites are described as direct descendants of the Yamnaya and as warrior societies organized around palace economies.
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Bad weather makes the palace economy collapse because elites still demand their cut instead of sharing sacrifice, creating strain and internal revolt.
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Jiang cites archaeological and textual evidence for Mycenaean revolt and elite extraction: burned palaces with surrounding houses intact, written records of the palace economy, and royal graves becoming wealthier over time.
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Alexander affirms the viewer's claim that Poseidon held supreme status in parts of Mycenaean Greece, including Arcadia and other Peloponnesian centers, and says Greek archaeologists he knew through his aunt told him the same thing.
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"completely materialistic one nico says and alex when you are in greece come in haidari sit in polataki so i can come and say..."
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"b tablets found there you are absolutely right again and i should know because again because of my aunt who was minister of culture..."
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"they i remember them telling me exactly this and iranian kiddo says arcadia and central peloponnese is where god poseidon's cult lived and they..."
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"...make sense? And these places in the center of the universe, Mycenaean Greece, okay? Became very wealthy because they traded and they engaged in..."
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"And a few decades later, they were conquered by outside powers. Okay? After 1200 BCE, Egypt ceased to be a hegemon. A power. So,..."
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"So, let's look at a very specific example, of red seeking behavior. My city in Greece. All right? My city in Greece. So, my..."
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"...that during the Bronze Age, there was a, internal revolt, in, Mycenaean Greece."
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"And the reason why is, we can dig up, Mycenaean Greece, okay? The palace, and we, and what we see is, the palace is..."
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"...these established kingdoms throughout the Middle East and Europe. You have Mycenaean Greece. You had the Hittite Empire in Anatolia, which is present -day..."
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"...had the levant up north is anatolia across the asian is mycenaean greece and this is mesopotamia if you look at this map the..."
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"...is true for all empires. This is true for my society. Mycenaean Greece. So Mycenaean Greece is the empire that ruled the Aegean Sea..."
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"He is the king of Mycenaean Greece. And so they organized this huge army to attack Troy, to retrieve Helen, okay? And this will..."
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