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Sep 2022
57m 16s

How Ancient Economies Fell Apart: Interv...

Wondery / Patrick Wyman
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We're often told that trade was central to the interconnected world of the late Bronze Age, but what were people really trading? Why did trade matter so much? And what happened when that trade disappeared? Professor Sarah Murray is an archaeologist and an expert on the economy of Mycenaean Greece - and how and why it fell apart.


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