The First Labor Strike in History and the Bronze Age Collapse

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[@nowaout8014]

i wonder if the folks of exodus were these striking workers?

[@LuisAldamiz]

Liked it pretty much. Very well explained.

[@MasterMalrubius]

Interesting subject. Well presented and I very much enjoyed it.

[@pedromayallguilayn507]

Great presentation. I imagine that the collapse of internacional trade and the disapearance of Many markets after ter collapse certainly resulted in a maior Economic downturn, that seriously affected the two surviving major Empires, egypt and Assíria. This econômico crises must have gravely depleted the resources at the disposal of Ramses III.

[@LuisAldamiz]

Only if international trade was so important. And it was for some crucial materials like tin but not so much for the core economy, like grain. They probably suffered much more because of the droughts associated to the BAC. Egypt did not survive anyhow, it survived the Sea Peoples (at least those Sea Peoples we have documentation for) but it would collapse in just another century (which is also the time of final Mycenaean collapse) and it did so after a bunch of useless pharaohs apparently. It would resurface but only briefly. The BAC also finished Egypt, even if it was not as abrupt as with the Hittites (who also had a comeback of sorts in the form of Luwian states, notably Lydia, much of the Iron Age is still continuation of the BA, including Classical Greece).

[@tim2269]

Very interesting.Would the collapse begin a time when Tombs started to be looted?

[@jasonmuniz-contreras6630]

The history of humanity is one of competition for wealth(as in material resources) and power. Competition between humans and other living organisms but also among humans. The hunter types either getting conquered by more gracile Neolithic farmers or those hunters conquering the farmers. Nomads vs sedentists, that is the contradiction but I feel like the synthesis is European civilization, nomads with cities.

[@jcrass2361]

Jason Muñiz-Contreras naw, it was only with the walls and the farmers that we see the development of a human caste system. The hunter gathered worked cooperatively way more than we’re at each other’s throats, because that’s how communities form and stay alive. The individual in society can only flourish if there is a strong, collective civilization beneath them. Most anthropologists support this.

[@jasonmuniz-contreras6630]

@@jcrass2361 yeah one group can cooperate to exploit another group. Hunter gatherers initially were all cooperative with one another, thousands of years ago in Africa. But that still doesnt mean they didn't compete with one another, the most skilled hunter would undoubtedly be esteemed more. Overtime as homo sapiens spread and different populations of hunter gatherers stayed isolated they began specializing in certain economic practices. Hunter gatherers in the near East, South Asia and east Asia started to settle somewhat permanently eventually they would have to develop agriculture. However not all nomadic hunter gatherers settled down some of them continued practiced their old aggressive economic strategy. The ancestors of the Indo Europeans were hunter gatherers(Ancient North Eurasians) and I believe that some of these ANE populations were very aggressive. This probably explains the expansion of the Indo Europeans throughout Eurasia, they became pastoralists but they still retained the aggressive nomad mentality of their North Eurasian ancestors. Nevertheless I agree with you, hierarchical structures of power were already in place in heavily agricultural areas. The north Eurasians nomads would either just conquer the neolithics and exterminate them(Europe and South Asia, more recently the Americas) or become the ruling class(Middle East). Obviously some neolithic lineages survived.

[@McHobotheBobo]

@@jcrass2361 You're spot on, some folks can't move past their ideological education, sadly :/

[@jcrass2361]

Solidarity

[@Jay121]

Party on, dudes!

[@rubenjames7345]

I upvoted this presentation, although it wasn't my first inclination. Whenever the author prefaces a talk on the Bronze Age Collapse by stating that it "doesn't address the Bronze Age Collapse", I think 'clickbait'. However, it ended up being an interesting presentation. Although taking a class struggle interpretation of history is about as academically kiss-butt as you can be, it doesn't always mean that it's the wrong one.

[@skipjackjohnson5528]

Its those Pesky sea people again.

[@larrygrimaldi1400]

turns me off whenever a lecturer says "B.C.E" sound hypocritical---