The Year Civilization Collapse Chapter Summary

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In the book 1177 B.C The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline brings the reader to think whether or not the sea people really existed and if they did, what methods caused them to overtake many civilizations which led to the collapse of strong civilizations such as the Hittites, Greeks, Egypt and many more. As the reader, it is easier to come into an understanding that civilizations did not collapse due to the sea people taking over but because of reasons as natural disasters, economic trade embargoes and internal rebellion as provided by Cline with sufficient evidence in the book.
Even though the author states that the civilizations collapsed because the sea people came, after reading the book it doesn’t make sense to the reader that …show more content…

If the reader think back about the authors point, is it possible for a group of people we don’t know to build/take over a civilization? We cannot deny that sea people did not come but even if they came, could that be the only reason why civilizations collapsed? For example, United States is seen as a strong nation, and just because Cuba is next to the United States, could Cubans take over the Americans? If so, how? If America ever collapse, what could be other reasons for the collapse? Many questions might come up when thinking about what Cline states as to sea …show more content…

Even in today’s world many nations such as Japan, being a strong nation in the continent of Asia, almost the whole nation was wiped out from the recent tsunami that happened in Japan in 2011 which led to the rebuilding of half of the country because of the devastating natural disaster. It could be that natural disasters such as earthquakes, droughts, tsunamis etc, that steered the civilizations to a failure. As learned, the Minoans faced two volcanic eruptions before the civilizations fully collapsed. After the first eruption, the Minoans thought that the gods were punishing them; being high believers of the gods but when the volcanic eruption hit the second time it depressed the Minoans to the point where they couldn’t keep up with the civilization anymore. Also, after the earthquake, it has created a lot of turmoil in Egypt so they collapsed as well. Greece along with many other civilizations in the eastern Mediterranean has collapsed due to a series of earthquakes. The famous “dust bowl” as learned in previous history classes has led to an enormous amounts of people to migrate from Oklahoma to California and when people leave a place it is harder to maintain a

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