Steven Bartlett
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Appearances Over Time
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So we live in a unipolar moment.
And the closest historical analogy to today is something called the Bronze Age Collapse.
The Bronze Age.
The Bronze Age Collapse.
And this happened about over 3,000 years ago.
And what happened during the Bronze Age Collapse is that you have these established kingdoms, right?
throughout the Middle East and Europe.
You have my city in Greece.
You had the Hittite Empire in Anatolia, which is present-day Turkey.
You had the Mesopotamian Empire.
You had the Egyptians.
And one by one,
They collapsed.
And the reason why was that a perfect storm of calamities came at the same time.
There were earthquakes.
There were famines.
There was a climate crisis.
There were wars.
There were civil wars.
There were revolutions.