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This is an interesting watch and relevant to now. All about ancient collapse in 1200BC and the things surrounding it. He's very clever at drawing parallels w/o being political.
Dudes first book was good and definitely going to read the second.
To which I would add Jared Diamond's book : Collapse - how societies choose to fail or survive. Some of which shocked me on first reading. Diamond is known to cherrypick data, but his examples are compelling. And pretty close to home here in Australia.