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Today we talk about Eric Cline's new book, After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations, and the lessons it can teach us about gaming in our industry.

https://sexpositivegaming.podbean.com/e/shame-free-gaming-5-the-bronze-age-collapse-and-adult-gaming/

Eric's Books (that we mentioned):

After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations

1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed: Revised and Updated

Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology

Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon

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Ariane Barnes

Feels like a bit of a non-sequitir, but I enjoyed the discussion. Age of Empires 1 included a lot of Bronze Age civilizations, though it was not a "collapse" game. Watched this video afterwords featuring a talk by Eric Klein. https://youtu.be/M4LRHJlijVU Got me thinking, what if the "sea people" were not an actual foreigners but the bronze age version of anarchists or MAGA types. Fed up with the droughts, famines, earthquakes, and income inequality the working class rebelled and killed the corrupt leaders grabbed everything they could from their palaces, burned the palaces to the ground, then recruited more working class to take the next city, then the next... Damn, that would make a good plot.

sexpositivegaming

That's a presentation on the first edition of 1177 from 2016, which is great! He's put out a revised edition and a sequel since then if you are interested.

Brian Thompson

I think the period immediately prior to and after the eruption of Santorini is probably the period I'm most interested in... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_eruption#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DThe_Minoan_eruption_was_a%2Ccalled_Santorini%29_circa_1600_BCE.?wprov=sfla1