'Knew'? It's all conjecture!! Graeco-roman history is as dodgy as any. They wrote their own.. always dodgy! How did the phoenicians go under the radar? Monuments equally as impressive as the greeks? Barely a mention till lately.

I agree with the sentiment, but don't let ~30 seconds of annoyance ruin an amazing hour-long lecture!

But it would be just a tidbit slower to jump in at a random line, that is if they didn't have some kind of marker to denote if you are on an odd or even page.

"take your time" lol ikr how long does it take to silence a phone like 3 seconds?

Really? I thought the alphabetic ordering only applies when one doesn't end in an open vowell.

The dark ages after the Bronze Age collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean, and especially the Greek Dark Ages, are called so for a reason - loss of writing (Linear B), reversion of pottery to much more coarse and primitive styles, dwindling in number and population size of urban sites including wholesale destruction of many, collapse of trade. It has nothing to do with your "Indo-European superiority of the Sea Peoples" complex which you are trying to convey here. After all, no one knows the exact ethno-linguistic composition of the Sea Peoples, and they destroyed at least two already established and known Indo-European polities which were more civically advanced than them - the Mycenaean world in Greece and the Hittite empire in Turkey, severely downgrading the level of civilization in those territories for a couple of centuries at least. By the way, it were the Hittites who first discovered iron quite some time before the Bronze Age collapse, not the Sea Peoples. And it were the Semitic Phoenicians (who lived in the Levant long before the Bronze Age collapse, and long after it) who first invented the alphabet, not your precious Sea Peoples OR any Indo-Europeans - and certainly not Philistines who never left even a single inscription in their own language, precisely because they had no writing. ALEF-BETH - the consonant letter names are all Northwest Semitic, and are preserved so in Greek. And by the way, Israelites ARE a native Levantine people because even if one accepts the ludicrous notion that they were all "Chaldean migrants" en masse, this is moot because Chaldeans were an Aramean tribe whose original territory was in Syria, near modern-day Israel and Lebanon, and not Babylonia where they first appeared around 940 BCE (long after the Israelites first appear in the Southern Levant and in Egyptian inscriptions around 1200 BCE). While the Philistines are clearly not native to the region. Eurasian agriculture, advanced civilization and urbanized society with all its advantages and disadvantages originates from the Fertile Crescent, from the Near East, and there is nothing you can do about it.

Person too its just lack of experience, eventually he will find his style. Plus he was roped in at the last minute so there would be a lack of practice of the talk. 8/10

And ha! "Totally neutral...that no one can get mad at..." Is this what Academia has become? And I will guess it is not those supposedly rigid & anti-intellectual Right wingers, he's afraid to displease. #sigh