"Climate may have contributed to end one of Antiquity’s" Topic
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| Tango01 | 25 Jun 2020 3:35 p.m. PST |
…most powerful civilizations "New research suggests it was climate-related drought that built the foundation for the collapse of the Assyrian Empire (whose heartland was based in today's northern Iraq)—one of the most powerful civilizations in the ancient world. The Science Advances paper, led by Ashish Sinha at California State University, Dominguez Hills and coauthored by CIRES affiliate Adam Schneider, details how megadroughts in the 7th century BC triggered a decline in Assyria's way of life that contributed to its ultimate collapse…"
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Rdfraf  | 25 Jun 2020 6:01 p.m. PST |
The Babylonians and Medes helped a bit too. |
| Tango01 | 26 Jun 2020 11:52 a.m. PST |
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