How to pronounce “mycena” in English

the Mycenaeans and Minoans, it comes crashing down. And as I've mentioned, they had to rebuild from the ground up. They do it successfully, but it takes quite a while. And that's why I end after

But the Mycenaean culture effectively had died out by about 1200 BC and earlier on Crete.

you had the Mycenaeans and the Minoans, right? Think Trojan War. In what is now Turkey, ancient Anatolia, you had the Hittites. Over in Mesopotamia, the land between the two rivers,

plague sweeping through the Mycenaean troops that are besieging Troy. In the story of the Exodus from the Hebrew Bible, we've got the 10 plagues. These might be memories, vague memories of what

There had been literacy under the Mycenaean culture.

circumstances, like the Mycenaeans on mainland Greece, on the Minoans on Crete. Others disappear entirely like the Hittites. But, Cypriots do okay, Phoenicians do okay, Assyrians and Babylonians do

There are words that we now know how to sound out in Mycenaean Greek.

Mawr College. He suggested that the Mycenaeans on mainland Greece, that their civilization had come to an end because of a drought. But he didn't have any hard data to back his suggestion up.

Not long after the tablets were written, the various Mycenaean palatial centers, both at Knossos and centers on the mainland, Pylos, Mycenae itself, some others, were

or maybe less than three hops, like two hops for the Mycenaeans to the Hittites to the Assyrians, that's a small world network. And in the time period that we're talking about, that's what

Greece who have fled Greece and come over to the Eastern Mediterranean because Philistine pottery looks like degenerate Mycenaean. Meaning not that it's terrible, but it's Mycenaean pottery as if

linear B in my Sydney and Greece is not used again after the collapse of the Mycenaeans.

What happened is Linear B, we now know, records what is called Mycenaean Greek, the language of Bronze Age era

in direct or indirect contact with each other on almost daily basis. The thing is, if they're not in direct contact with somebody, like Mycenaeans and Assyrians, who are quite far apart, they will

group called the Peleset. And the Peleset are the Philistines. Now the Philistines are mentioned in the Bible. We already know them archeologically. It really looks like they are Mycenaeans from

it were made in Greece, but it's made with clay that's local to Cyprus, Rhodes, the Levant. So it looks like the Mycenaeans come across. Now Ramses and Merneptah both say that they defeated the sea

there's no water, there's no food, anything like that. And there are a couple of instances where we can see that. The site of Mycenae on Mainland Greece where the famous Lion Gate is, it has been

collapse. And so we can see bodies in a number of cities. There's a young teenage girl at Mycenae,

it have taken for them to fall to collapse the whole network? For instance, if the Mycenaeans had gone down, would that have collapsed the whole globalized network? If the Minoans had gone down,

I'm still here. My Hittite government isn't here. So we do have to keep this in mind. Even in Greece, for example, nobody called themselves a Mycenaean after about 1050, but that doesn't

we can see new political systems popping up, for example. We can see new economic systems as they try and either grow back up from the ground like the Mycenaeans had to do. And again, we don't have

to sleep at night. But I'd also be quite happy to put them down into category four where they were like with the Mycenaeans and Minoans. So it's all fluid. And, you know, that's kind of

But for now, I'm gonna keep Egypt in category three. Category four, as I've just mentioned, is Minoans and Mycenaeans. They are just barely coping. They're not adapting. They're just coping.

We see all the big palaces in mainland Greece. And even on Crete for that matter, Mycenae, Tyrans,

societies were more fragile than they appeared and that they might have been more vulnerable to the stresses than they appeared to outsiders. Like the Mycenaeans, they had been over exploiting

those are three of the big four in the ancient world. I mean, my poor Mycenaeans and Minoans, they're not quite up there with the others. You know, the big two in the late Bronze Age are the

with it? Are we gonna be fragile? Are we gonna be vulnerable? Are we gonna be anti-fragile? In the aftermath of our society collapse, are we going to be Phoenicians? Or are we gonna be Mycenaeans? And