Environmental history

Ancient civilizations: their rise and fall (L. Dolák)

Lecture structure

  • Collapse – an overview
  • Egypt, Old Kingdom 
  • Collapse of Mediterranean civilizations 
  • Neo-Assyrian Empire 
  • Western Roman Empire 
  • Collapse of recent civilization?

04 Ancient civilizations their rise and fall
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Supplementary reading

  • CLINE, E. (2014): 1177 B.C. The year civilization collapsed. Princeton University Press, 264 p.
  • MCNEILL, J. R. and ROE, A. ed. (2013): Global environmental history: an introductory reader. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 449. ISBN 9780415520539.
  • STROMBERG, J. (2012): “Why Did the Mayan Civilization Collapse? A New Study Points to Deforestation and Climate Change.” Smithsonian. 2012.

Video materials

The Entire History of Human Civilizations | Ancient to Modern

 The Bronze Age Collapse - Mediterranean Apocalypse


1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Eric Cline, PhD)