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The Bronze Age Collapse - II: The Wheel and the Rod - Extra History (Patreon)

Published:
2017-06-30 23:59:16
Edited:
2018-05-15 02:28:42
Imported:
2022-01

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After the Bronze Age collapse, we would not see societies so advanced for another half a millenium. What happened?

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The Bronze Age Collapse - II: The Wheel and the Rod - Extra History

Bronze Age societies built intricate networks of trade, advanced military infrastructure, and hugely organized central governments. But when crucial parts of those systems began to disappear, the societies built on them began to crumble. Support us on Patreon! http://bit.ly/EHPatreon (--More below) Grab your Extra Credits gear at the store! http://bit.ly/ExtraStore Subscribe for new episodes every Saturday! http://bit.ly/SubToEC _________ Thanks for participating in this week's discussion! We want you to be aware of our community posting guidelines so that we can have high-quality conversations: https://goo.gl/HkzwQh Contribute community subtitles to Extra Credits: http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UCCODtTcd5M1JavPCOr_Uydg&tab=2 ___________ Play games with us on Extra Play! http://bit.ly/WatchEXP Talk to us on Twitter (@ExtraCreditz): http://bit.ly/ECTweet Follow us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/ECFBPage Get our list of recommended games on Steam: http://bit.ly/ECCurator ____________ ♪ Get the intro music here! http://bit.ly/1EQA5N7 *Music by Demetori: http://bit.ly/1AaJG4H ♪ Get the outro music here! http://bit.ly/23isQfx *Music by Sean and Dean Kiner: http://bit.ly/1WdBhnm

Comments

Anonymous

What caused the Delay, if you don't mind me asking?

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>>5924727

I hate to admit this... but I was up late playing D&D and forgot what day it was. That's all. :(

Anonymous

ding you d and d you take another night from us all!

Anonymous

Ah, China... The hipsters of the ancient world.

Anonymous

This sounds like the basis for a pretty fun strategy game. One where you have to maintain your country's administration to avoid a game ruining snowball affect.

Anonymous

I saw a documentary from the BBC, it talked about the Bronze Age Britons and it lead me to believe that the Bronze Age collapse was an economic bubble. It showed how ancient Britain was a major source of tin and copper and traded huge amounts of bronze overseas. But the only reason they know this is because they found treasure troves of bronze buried in Britain. Not hoarding against scarcity but stockpiling for the day 'prices' go up, because there was too much bronze. I mean if you connect things from the series on currency to this series about socioecogovernmental systems you can easily see how societies fall from day-to-day events. Fascinating.

Anonymous
>>5927208

You might like Pharaoh from Sierra Entertainment. The game even takes place in the Bronze Age!

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>>5926279

Hahaha! Whatever you think is cool, they did it first and they're already over it.

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>>5927340

One of the greatest things about the Bronze Age is that there's so much uncertainty about what happened, exactly, that we can make a good argument for a lot of very different theories. I kind of enjoy that uncertainty, myself, especially when it leads us to explore more cool ideas like this!

Anonymous

Methinks this may be a cautionary tale about how fragile our own heavily interwoven global society is.

Matthew Foweraker

Perhaps it is just the fact that you are the ones telling this, but the command economy reminds me a lot of how videogame economies work, and when I recall how bad I was at the old Caesar games the idea really un-nerves me...

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>>5931723

I actually tried a Caesar game for the first time... I wanna say about a year ago? Gosh I loved it. So sad that I missed it when I was younger and had more free time, because I would have wasted a whole summer on that thing.

Anonymous

That's it. This series and the D-Day one got me to pledge. A little at first, but I hope to give more when I will be able. Thank you Extra Credits!

Anonymous

happy 4th .

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>>5989993

World War II and the Late Bronze Age - so we just had to bookend history a bit, and that was the key to your heart? ;) Thanks for joining us here, and we hope you enjoy our little Patreon community!

Anonymous

The representation of the materials creates all kinds of feelings in me. RTS nostalgic feelings. I love you. Absolutely amazing work as always. + 10