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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Cover of the first edition
Author	Eric H. Cline
Audio read by	Andy Caploe
Language	English
Series	Turning Points in Ancient History
Subject	Late Bronze Age collapse
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Publication date	2014
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print, e-book, audio book
Pages	264
Awards	2014 The New York Post's Best Books. 2014 The Australian's Best Books of the Year. 2015 The Federalist's Notable Books.
ISBN	9780691140896
Dewey Decimal	930.1'56-dc23
LC Class	GN778.25.C55 2014 https://lccn.loc.gov/2013032059
Website	Publisher - 1177 B.C

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed is a 2014 non-fiction book about the Late Bronze Age collapse by American archaeologist Eric H. Cline. It was published by Princeton University Press. An updated edition was published in 2021.

Description

The book focuses on Cline's hypothesis for the Late Bronze Age collapse of civilization, a transition period that affected the Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, Cypriots, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Assyrians and Babylonians; varied heterogeneous cultures populating eight powerful and flourishing states intermingling via trade, commerce, exchange and "cultural piggybacking," despite "all the difficulties of travel and time".^[1] He presents evidence to support a "perfect storm" of "multiple interconnected failures," meaning that more than one natural and man-made cataclysm caused the disintegration and demise of an ancient civilization that incorporated "empires and globalized peoples."^[1]^[2] This ended the Bronze Age, and ended the Mycenaean, Minoan, Trojan, Hittite, and Babylonian cultures.^[2]

Before this book, the leading hypothesis during previous decades attributed the civilizations' collapse mostly to Sea Peoples of unknown origin.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Awards

The book has won the following awards:^[2]

Winner of the 2014 Award for the Best Popular Book, American Schools of Oriental Research
Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Archeology & Anthropology, Association of American Publishers
One of The New York Post's Best Books of 2014
One of The Federalist's Notable Books of 2015
One of The Australian's Best Books of the Year in 2014, chosen by filmmaker Bruce Beresford
Selected as the 'Book of the Semester' Fall 2016, David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham Young University

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Gopnik, Adam (19 March 2014). "Of Hippos and Kings". New Yorker. Condé Nast. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Summary (2014). "1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, Eric H. Cline". Princeton University Press. Archived from the original on 2017-07-19. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
^ Knapp, A. Bernard. "The Year Civilization Collapsed". History Today. Archived from the original on 2017-07-19.
^ Karacic, Steven (August 2015). "Eric H. Cline, 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed". Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR). Bryn Mawr College. Retrieved 5 July 2017.

External links

ISBN 978-0-691-14089-6
Publisher's site for this book
Professor Cline's video lecture on his book.
Full text of this book available on JSTOR

Timeline of Mesopotamia

	Northwestern Mesopotamia			Northern Mesopotamia	Southern Mesopotamia
c. 3500–2350 BCE	Late Chalcolithic 4-5 / Early Jezirah 1-3				Uruk period / Jemdet Nasr period / Early Dynastic period
c. 2350–2200 BCE	Akkadian Empire
c. 2200–2100 BCE	Gutians
c. 2100–2000 BCE	Third Dynasty of Ur
c. 2000–1800 BCE	Mari and other Amorite city-states			Old Assyrian period	Isin/Larsa and other Amorite city-states
c. 1800–1600 BCE	Old Hittite Kingdom		Old Babylonian Empire (Southern Akkadians)
c. 1600–1400 BCE	Mitanni (Hurrians)				Karduniaš (Kassites)
c. 1400–1200 BCE	Middle Hittite Kingdom			Middle Assyria
c. 1200–1150 BCE	Bronze Age Collapse ("Sea Peoples")		Arameans	Middle Assyria
c. 1150–911 BCE	Phoenicia	Neo-Hittite city-states	Aram- Damascus	Arameans	Middle Babylonia	Chal- de- ans
911–729 BCE	Phoenicia	Neo-Hittite city-states	Aram- Damascus	Neo-Assyrian Empire	Middle Babylonia
729–609 BCE				Neo-Assyrian Empire
626–539 BCE	Neo-Babylonian Empire (Chaldeans)
539–331 BCE	Achaemenid Empire
336–301 BCE	Macedonian Empire (Ancient Greeks and Macedonians)
311–129 BCE	Seleucid Empire
129–63 BCE	Seleucid Empire			Parthian Empire
63 BCE–224 CE	Ancient Rome - Byzantine Empire (Syria)			Parthian Empire
224–mid 7C				Sassanid Empire

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