The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean

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In The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean: Climate Change and the Decline of the East, — , archeologist Ronnie Ellenblum suggests a new reading of Most users should sign in with their email address. If you originally registered with a username please use that to sign in. To purchase short term access, please sign in to your Oxford Academic account above.

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Purchase Subscription prices and ordering Short-term Access To purchase short term access, please sign in to your Oxford Academic account above. As a 'Medieval Warm Period' prevailed in Western Europe during the tenth and eleventh centuries, the eastern Mediterranean region, from the Nile to the Oxus, was suffering from a series of climatic disasters which led to the decline of some of the most important civilizations and cultural centres of the time. This provocative study argues that many well-documented but apparently disparate events — such as recurrent drought and famine in Egypt, mass migrations in the steppes of central Asia, and the decline in population in urban centres such as Baghdad and Constantinople — are connected and should be understood within the broad context of climate change.

Drawing on a wealth of textual and archaeological evidence, Ronnie Ellenblum explores the impact of climatic and ecological change across the eastern Mediterranean in this period, to offer a new perspective on why this was a turning point in the history of the Islamic world. The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean 1. Presenting the events 2.

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Deconstructing a 'collapse' 3. The collapse of Iran 5. The fall of Baghdad 6. Egypt and its provinces, ss Part III. Cities and Minorities 8. Jerusalem and the decline of classical cities 9.

Water supply, declining cities and deserted villages Food crises and accelerated Islamization This comprehensive and clearly argued book advances our understanding of the complex political, social, and economic processes of the late tenth and eleventh century in SW Asia and, more broadly, our capacity to link these processes to those underway in other parts of Eurasia.

His thorough synthesis of numerous documents that reported the occurrence of extreme climate events, weaved together across space and time with records of related conflict and civic system response, adds an invaluable resource for understanding how climate varied in the past and how it has affected humanity.

No study on 'collapse' and its consequences is as persuasive as this one. About Help Blog Jobs Welcome to our new website.

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