The Old Kingdom in Egypt also collapsed during this period. The largest cities of the Indus Valley Civilization, such as Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, were ultimately abandoned due to this prolonged drought (Weiss, 1996). This is the first confirmed instance of a climate-related civilization ...
I divide this part of the paper into three sections. First, I discuss collapse in the context of contemporary environmental threats to societies; second, I present a vigorous strand of applied collapsology; and third, a survey indicates the diversity in scale and approaches to collapse and resil...
Why did the Carolingian Empire collapse? What long-term political factors led to the collapse of the Roman Empire? Why did the Minoan civilization collapse? What caused the end of the Old Kingdom in Egypt? What caused the decline of Charlemagne's empire?
Bible shows them as a unified kingdom, scholars don't think that was historically true Hebrew and Canaanite language of the records found in the region Northwest Semitic languages new literary tradition is in Hebrew though Kingdoms of Israel (Samaria) and Judah (Jerusalem) ...
ArchaeologyAn eclectic group of scholars who met recently at the University of Cambridge argues that true social collapse is a rare phenomenon. They say that new data demonstrate that classic examples of massive collapse such as the disintegration of Egypt's Old Kingdom, the end of the Classic ...
A series of exceptionally low Nile floods ca. 2150 BC was instumental in the sudden collapse of centralized government in ancient Egypt signaling the end of the Old Kingdom. Famines, social disorder, and fragmentation during a period of approximately 40 years were followed by a phase of ...
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The key players included the Mycenaeans on mainland Greece, who succeeded and somewhat subsumed the Minoans on Crete, New Kingdom Egypt, Babylonia, Cyprus, Assyria, the Hittite empire in Anatolia, cities in the region of Western Anatolia, and the cities of Canaan, including the international ...
This period of time saw the end of the various Mycenaean kingdoms of the Mediterranean, the Hittite Empire in Anatolia and Syria, and the New Kingdom of Egypt in Syria and Canaan. During what’s considered to be the first phase of the collapse (actual collapses of civil...
The failure of the Egyptian Old Kingdom towards the end of the 2nd millennium BCE was accompanied by riots, tomb-raids and even cannibalism. ‘The whole of Upper Egypt died of hunger and each individual had reached such a state of hunger that he ate his own children,’ runs an account ...