Hour 3 | 1700 - 1200 BCE

This third episode covers what's sometimes called "The Late Bronze Age." Ellie takes us on a world tour to see the Shang Dynasty in China, the Minoans on the island of Crete in the Mediterranean, the Kerma civilization in Sudan, Poverty Point in the United States, and the Austronesian Expansion across Islands Southeast Asia. We’ll see pools of wine, volcanoes, minotaurs, shipwrecks, ringing rocks, epic ocean voyages, and pyramids in North America!

• The Late Bronze Age
• Shang Dynasty
• Origin of Chinese Characters
• Legend of Atlantis
• Minoans
• Mycenaeans and the Minotaur
• Kingdom of Kerma
• Poverty Point
• Pyramids in Louisiana
• The Austronesian Expansion
• The Longest Open-Ocean Voyage
• What Makes “A People?”

Sources, discussion, pictures, links and more at our website WorldHistory24.com

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