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EH Poll Result: Late Bronze Age Collapse
🕑 Added 2017-01-26 08:11:43 +0000 UTC No more neck and neck races this time! The Bronze Age Collapse raced away with Patreon poll this month (though Otto von Bismarck had a strong second place showing). It will join the Extra History line-up in summer of 2017!Current Schedule: Catherine the Great --> Ned Kelly --> Articles of Confederation --> Late Bronze Age Collapse
Link to results (polls are locked, but results can be viewed): https://www.patreon.com/posts/7857096
Comments
Reed Curtis
As interesting as I find the Bronze Age collapse, the main thing I love so much about EH is the incredible personal stories conveyed by this particular style of animated history. While I do definitely look forward to the Bronze Age Collapse series, I have to admit I was really bummed to not have been able to delve into 19th century European politics again with OVB. I think that the kinds of personal stories that can be told by very well documented history tend to lend themselves more to this channel's strong points.
Russell Uresti
Looks like a great lineup.
Extra History
D'awww. Thank you, Matt!
Stephen
Walpole's wily ways.
Matthew James Davis
No worries. We love you and appreciate your hard work, Soraya!
Extra History
Walpole has his ways...
Extra History
James seems to want to treat it like a mystery - basically, we've never done history that's in the speculative realm before, and we want to take a crack at it. We'll see how we do!
Extra History
We waste no time!
Extra History
I asked James the same question - how are we going to do it - and he wanted to do this topic specifically because it's more in the realm of speculation and theory. We don't really have a baseline for covering that kind of material in EH type of way yet, and he wants to take a crack at figuring it out. Hopefully it'll be great and open up more areas of history that live in the realm of speculation for us to cover.
Extra History
ALL RIGHT. Sorry for spamming you with maaany comments, but I found out the reason: voting in the poll is an option for $5 patrons, and your pledge is less than that. After the results were finalized, I made the post public so that everyone could view them, but in doing so I think I caused confusion and more harm than good. Very sorry for this!
Extra History
Edit: Nevermind, scrolled down to the comments section on the poll and see them there. Looking into it with Patreon!
Extra History
We'll be working like busy little bees on it starting now, though!
Extra History
Yeah, we'd be happy to cover any of those, but they have to win votes first, and as RMS said, there's a lot to cover. I know we'd love to do more Crusades, for example, but since we have already done one on the Crusades (but none on ancient history), I'm pretty happy to get some good variety from the results!
Extra History
You would never guess this series started because of Total War. ;)
Extra History
Whaaaat? That's bizarro-land! Do you usually not get the notification emails until several days after the post? Also (for anyone who hearted this and happens to see it as well), is this happening to anyone else as well? I'm chasing down a couple of bugs with Patreon, but this one would be new to me!
Pavel Yakushevich
Great Britain has been naval empire for centuries; would make sense for Walpole to be one of the Sea people leaders.
Jochen Brinkmann
So how will you sneak Wallpole (sp?) in here?
Jon Paul Cuellar
I'm also curious how this topic will even work. Would it just be covering the various theories?
RMS Oceanic
Thing about history: There's a lot to cover. The Fourth Crusade would be an excellent choice
Antti Björklund
Let the "sea people" puns commence... oh I see they already have :P
Marco Honrade
That's 9 elections in a row where one of the topics I voted became the series. So close for Bismarck, he actually had a chance since he wasn't completing against Justinian part 2 like during the 8th Vote, which followed the first half of the Justinian series. Oh well, third time’s the charm. It took Bolivar 4 tries and Catherine 3 before they won. Despite casting Bismarck as my second vote, I’m actually glad he didn’t win since we had many topics in the late Modern period already, 8 of 19 series were in the 18th and 19th centuries. So how is the crew going to do this series since it falls more in the realm of speculation and historical theory? The Late Bronze Age Collapse is still a mystery; We don't know why the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean civilizations had an abrupt, simultaneous, violent collapse. Was it mass migrations, a supervolcano, climate change, earthquake storms, disruptive technologies? It seems people had trouble with Patreon poll. Deleted votes, unable to read comments, etc. Hopefully when the next election in March, the poll become more stable and there will more features like preferential voting or randomizing topic order, etc.
Matthew James Davis
That awkward moment when I get the result email one minute after I get the poll email. <a href="http://imgur.com/a/lnzfc" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://imgur.com/a/lnzfc</a>
Martin Verran
AT LAST!!! Not only has something I Voted for FINALLY Won, we get an Ancient Egyptian Extra History!!! Such a Pity that we'll have to wait such a long Time before it is uploaded.
Julian Lin
Still no Byzantine-Bulgarian wars? Or the 4th crusade and regaining of Constantinople by the Byzantines?
Nessf
One more topic for the civ tech tree!
Extra History
Now that's some power politics if I ever heard it!
Michael Waisfeld
Polls are useless! The great question of what subjects to cover will not be decided by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood!
