Empire: World History · 2026-02-24 · 47 min · 7,716 words

336. Bronze Age Apocalypse: How To Survive The End of The World (Ep 5)

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Well, hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnand. And me, William Durumple. Now, last time we had the wonderful Eric Klein with us, the man I would give up this podcast. for if I could go and join his course because it's so um fantastic. Be careful.

Be afraid, Eric. Be afraid. I would, Eric. It's it is a threat and a promise altogether. But you know, it was a really interesting I mean the reason I find you and this so fascinating is because you're tying together so many things, you know, the huge

big ticket stories. We had Troy, we had the Bible, we had the Exodus. Yeah. Yeah, droughts, earthquakes, migrations, uh, battles, all of these things happening together to lead to this huge systemic collapse that we're talking about. Today we're going to see how these catastrophes play out, kingdom by kingdom, how these Bronze Age civilizations fall like dominoes one after the other.

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