I love these, will definitely manage all 4! Thanks for this interesting ( and really useful to #readyourkindle) reading challenge, @CBee!!
I love these, will definitely manage all 4! Thanks for this interesting ( and really useful to #readyourkindle) reading challenge, @CBee!!
Soft pick. It was an interesting read with lots of new information, but focuses heavily on the Aegean and Mediterranean rather than Mesopotamia and Egypt. This isn‘t a bad thing, but not what I was looking for. I did enjoy learning about the Sea Peoples and all of the theories for the Bronze Age Collapse. A great and informative read if you‘re interested in learning about one the greatest catastrophes in human history.
Don‘t know why I have been reading it for the whole two months. It‘s too academic for my liking.
Discussion of the complex and interdependent nations of the Late Bronze Age, and what we know about why they collapsed in the early 12th Century B.C.E. Was it invaders? Insurrection? Drought? Earthquakes? Climate change? Systems collapse? Maybe a combination of several of these, says Cline, and explains why he thinks that. Very interesting but also too academic to say I enjoyed it.
I have always been fascinated by the period at the end of the Bronze Age when the great kingdoms of the Aegean collapsed under the relentless assault's of the Sea Peoples. Cline argues that this view is largely wrong and that the Sea People were a by product of the chaotic collapse of a long established diplomatic and trading community covering Greece, Asia Minor, the Levant and Egypt. A book with concerning implications for current times.