- Collapse – an overview
- Egypt, Old Kingdom
- Collapse of Mediterranean civilizations
- Neo-Assyrian Empire
- Western Roman Empire
- Collapse of recent civilization?
Environmental history
Ancient civilizations: their rise and fall (L. Dolák)
Lecture structure
04 Ancient civilizations their rise and fall
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.
Further interesting and supplementary links
Video materials