The Bronze Age World (Paperback)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Peak Grizzly Publishing, 2026
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Paperback. Three thousand years ago, kings on opposite sides of the known world called each other "brother." They traded tin and gold across thousands of miles of open sea. They sent their daughters to marry foreign rulers they would never meet. They wrote letters in a shared diplomatic language, demanding respect, negotiating treaties, and complaining about the quality of gifts. Then the whole system collapsed and none of it survived.The Late Bronze Age - roughly 1500 to 1200 BCE - was the first era of true international civilization. Egypt, the Hittite Empire, Babylonia, Assyria, and Mycenaean Greece formed an interconnected network of great powers bound together by diplomacy, trade, and marriage alliances. A single shipwreck from this era, the Uluburun vessel discovered off the coast of Turkey, carried goods from eleven different cultures. This was not a primitive world. It was a sophisticated, interdependent system of states that would not be matched in complexity for nearly a thousand years after its destruction.This book tells the story of that system - how it was built, how it worked, and why it was more fragile than anyone realized.In The Bronze Age World, you will discover: The Club of Great Kings - the exclusive circle of rulers who treated each other as equals and everyone else as subjectsThe Amarna Letters - the diplomatic archive that lets us read 3,400-year-old correspondence between kings, complete with flattery, threats, and petty complaintsThe Uluburun Shipwreck - the single archaeological find that proved the Bronze Age was a global trading systemThe Tin Problem - why the need for a single rare metal forced civilizations to build trade networks spanning thousands of milesDiplomatic Marriages - how princesses were the currency of international relations, and what happened when the system broke downWriting, Law, and Bureaucracy - the administrative machinery that made an international civilization possibleThe Cracks in the System - how climate change, supply chain dependency, and internal pressures made the whole structure vulnerableThe Last Letters - the final desperate messages from Ugarit to allies who could not help, written as the world was endingThis book is for you if: You love ancient history but want the full picture of Bronze Age civilization, not just the collapseYou're fascinated by how ancient trade and diplomacy actually workedYou want to understand what was lost when the Bronze Age system fell apartYou enjoyed Ancient Apocalypse, The Sea Peoples, The Hittite Empire, or Iron Age Dawn and want the prequelYou're drawn to parallels between ancient interconnected civilizations and our ownThis is the story of the world before the catastrophe - the first global civilization and everything it achieved before it all fell apart.The prequel to the Bronze Age Collapse. The story of what was lost. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
N° de ref. del artículo 9798907140240
- Título
- The Bronze Age World (Paperback)
- Autor
- Shane Larson
- Editorial
- Peak Grizzly Publishing
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798907140240
- Serie
- Libro 1 de 11: The Bronze Age Collapse Chronicles
Three thousand years ago, kings on opposite sides of the known world called each other "brother." They traded tin and gold across thousands of miles of open sea. They sent their daughters to marry foreign rulers they would never meet. They wrote letters in a shared diplomatic language, demanding respect, negotiating treaties, and complaining about the quality of gifts. Then the whole system collapsed and none of it survived.
The Late Bronze Age — roughly 1500 to 1200 BCE — was the first era of true international civilization. Egypt, the Hittite Empire, Babylonia, Assyria, and Mycenaean Greece formed an interconnected network of great powers bound together by diplomacy, trade, and marriage alliances. A single shipwreck from this era, the Uluburun vessel discovered off the coast of Turkey, carried goods from eleven different cultures. This was not a primitive world. It was a sophisticated, interdependent system of states that would not be matched in complexity for nearly a thousand years after its destruction.
This book tells the story of that system — how it was built, how it worked, and why it was more fragile than anyone realized.
In The Bronze Age World, you will discover:
- The Club of Great Kings — the exclusive circle of rulers who treated each other as equals and everyone else as subjects
- The Amarna Letters — the diplomatic archive that lets us read 3,400-year-old correspondence between kings, complete with flattery, threats, and petty complaints
- The Uluburun Shipwreck — the single archaeological find that proved the Bronze Age was a global trading system
- The Tin Problem — why the need for a single rare metal forced civilizations to build trade networks spanning thousands of miles
- Diplomatic Marriages — how princesses were the currency of international relations, and what happened when the system broke down
- Writing, Law, and Bureaucracy — the administrative machinery that made an international civilization possible
- The Cracks in the System — how climate change, supply chain dependency, and internal pressures made the whole structure vulnerable
- The Last Letters — the final desperate messages from Ugarit to allies who could not help, written as the world was ending
This book is for you if:
- You love ancient history but want the full picture of Bronze Age civilization, not just the collapse
- You're fascinated by how ancient trade and diplomacy actually worked
- You want to understand what was lost when the Bronze Age system fell apart
- You enjoyed Ancient Apocalypse, The Sea Peoples, The Hittite Empire, or Iron Age Dawn and want the prequel
- You're drawn to parallels between ancient interconnected civilizations and our own
This is the story of the world before the catastrophe — the first global civilization and everything it achieved before it all fell apart.
The prequel to the Bronze Age Collapse. The story of what was lost.
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