Researchers have peered back through 800 years of history to conclude that Mayapan – the capital of culture and politics for the Maya people of the Yucatán Peninsula in the 13th and 14th century CE – may well have been undone by drought.
Extreme dryness aided the collapse of the ancient South Arabian kingdom of Himyar. The journalSciencehas recently published these discoveries by researchers from theUniversity of Basel.The droughts left an area in disarray and, when coupled with political unrest and war, helped to create the circums...
Ancient Chinese drama is called "opera" because of the main factors of "opera" and "Qu". Chinese opera mainly includes southern opera of song and yuan, Zaju of yuan and Ming, legend and legend of Ming and Qing Dynasties, as well as the traditional repertoire of modern Beijing Opera and ...
What triggered a civil war between the CCP and Nationalist forces in China? What started the Chinese Communist Revolution? What happened in the city of Nanjing? What happened between China and Tibet? Why did the nationalists lose the Chinese Civil War?
But what kind of catastrophic event could have triggered such a sudden and sweeping downfall? It's likely that the simultaneous demise of so many ancient civilizations wasn't caused by a single event or disaster, but by a "perfect storm" of multiple stressors—an epic drought, desperate famin...
At one time, especially in the 1960s the grain elevator was considered the unofficial west end of Kennewick. But what about its history? The Grain elevator has stood for decades In the 6000 block of West Clearwater Ave. shortly before you reach Archibald's Auto lot, you will see the mass...
Interest in the lowland Maya collapse is stronger than ever, and there are now hundreds of studies that focus on the era from approximately A.D. 750 to A.D
Climate change may not even be as urgent as the sixth extinction triggered by humans. The ongoing sixth great extinction is referred to as the Anthropocene extinction or the Holocene extinction. There are more species than ever before, despite the fact that just 2% of all species considered to...
Much depends on whether the Ukraine conflict ends with the humiliating defeat of Russia or the collapse of European and Western unity. But a war at the heart of Europe that has already taken a terrible toll in human lives and inflicted major damage on both Ukraine and Russia is not a glowi...
The asteroid impact caused massive fires, tsunamis and an "impact winter" by ejecting dust and aerosols into the atmosphere, blocking sunlight and disrupting the climate. This led to a collapse in photosynthesis, affecting the food chain. What other factors might have contributed to the dinosaurs'...