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 ...
页数:288 装帧:Hardcover ISBN:9789774168383 豆瓣评分 评价人数不足 评价: 写笔记 写书评 加入购书单 分享到 推荐 内容简介· ··· This book explores the long-term trends in the development of what was the first complex civilization in history, the Old Kingdom of Egypt (c. 2650-2200 BC), the...
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 ...
then, I have chosen to give shape to the discussion on collapse in the first part, picking up the threads according to three themes that emerge from the literature. There I present recent work on collapse, mainly of state-level societies,...
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?
Old Kingdom Egypt, and mid-third millennium Uruk, but one will search in vein for a portrayal of the obscure periods that followed them: the “Dark Age” of Greece, the “First Intermediate Period” of Egypt, and the decline of Uruk under the Akkadian Empire. Yet there is a strong case...
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 ...
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 ...
explains the socio-political divisions in the region The North and South 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 ...
Referred to as “China’s Venice of the Stone Age”, the Liangzhu excavation site in eastern China is considered one of the most significant testimonies of early Chinese advanced civilisation. More than 5000 years ago, the city already had an elaborate water management system. Until now, ...