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Fall of Civilizations
2020 · TV series · documentary · 1 season
Created by Paul M.M. Cooper
A podcast about the collapse of civilizations throughout history. Why do civilizations collapse? What happens afterwards? And what did it feel like to watch it happen?
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The fall of civilizations episode about sumeria ending with a description of the underworld is one of the spookiest things I've ever heard.
I second this. I watched this episode of Fall of Civilizations podcast(on YouTube) while recovering a few weeks ago, and it's very informative and well-produced (as are all the episodes).
Ha I just watched a documentary that mentioned this pigment.
Fall of Civilizations 17 - Carthage: Empire of the Phoenecians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dbdVhVSat8
This whole channel is absolutely amazing. I watched almost the entire thing over the last 3 months -- 17 episodes of 2 to 4 hours on various civilizational collapses.
There were a bunch I didn't know about at all -- like medieval civilizations in Cambodia, Burma, and Jordan. They were wealthy, and built huge things, and then disappeared.
Also, I have heard of "Carthage" from all those movies like Gladiator ... Somehow it escaped me until my 40's that Carthage was founded by people from what's now Syria, and the city was in what's now Tunisia :) I guess being American I have a fuzzy picture of that side of the world, and what it looked like in ancient times.
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I've watched all the Fall of Civilizations episodes because they are really well done. An amazing amount of work went into them to good effect. I am not a historian so I can't judge if they are alt-history or not, like the episode "Easter Island - Where Giants Walked" which completely refutes Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel and the theory that the inhabitants destroyed their environment.