Civilizations ended by environmental collapse

Reviving history of AE !

Edited by Vivek Sharma - 19-Oct-2006 at 08:48

The ancient saraswati civilization started  to dwindle after the river Saraswati  dried up in 1900 BC

Originally posted by Jalisco Lancer The Mayans

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Originally posted by Belisarius The Minoan civilization was ended before of earthquakes that occured all over the island of Crete.

And don't forget the eruption of Thera, geologists say it was bigger than Krakatao!

The mighty Xiong-Nu empire can fault its rapid decline as much to unrelenting disease and environmental change as to Han armies.

It certainly helps their fall, more than any political action ever could contribute to decline.

Jared Diamond fans, you all forgot a big one--classical Greece and Rome.  The lands around the Mediterranean have been so used, misused and abused for the past 3,000+ years that the local ecology just isn't what it used to be.  Much of the topsoil has eroded away, many forests were cut down, many species of animals have been driven to extinction.  Even the amount of rainfall appears to have dropped over the ages.  As early as the fourth century B.C., Plato described the environmental damage done to Greece with these words: "What now remains, compared with what existed, is like the skeleton of a sick man, all the fat and soft earth wasted away and only the bare framework of the land being left."  By the time the Romans were finished, the same could be said for the whole Mediterranean basin.

And also they were displaced by the Inuit settlers, who had a better adapted lifestyle for the environment of Greenland.

Everything before Noah's Ark

Originally posted by Mixcoatl Vikings on Greenland

what happened to them?

 

Vikings on Greenland