Huge Ancient Civilization’s Collapse Explained

LiveScience ^ | 5-28-2012 | Charles Choi

[Renfield]

The mysterious fall of the largest of the world's earliest urban civilizations nearly 4,000 years ago in what is now India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh now appears to have a key culprit — ancient climate change, researchers say.

Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia may be the best known of the first great urban cultures, but the largest was the Indus or Harappan civilization. This culture once extended over more than 386,000 square miles (1 million square kilometers) across the plains of the Indus River from the Arabian Seato the Ganges, and at its peak may have accounted for 10 percent of the world population. The civilization developed about 5,200 years ago, and slowly disintegrated between 3,900 and 3,000 years ago — populations largely abandoned cities, migrating toward the east....

[Renfield]

I need to point out an inaccuracy in the article. Graham Hancock, Dale Drinnon and other researchers have demonstrated that this civilization actually started much earlier (as early as 9,000 years ago), as a coastal civilization, which was drowned as glaciers melted after the end of the Younger Dryas period. The society discussed in the article was but a remnant of that earlier civilization.

[Renfield]

PIng.

[PapaBear3625]

“Ancient climate change”, at a time when there were no nasty SUVs emitting CO2 into the atmosphere.

[No Socialist]

I didn’t realize that they had SUV’s 3,000 years ago to cause global warming.

[PGR88]

FEAR climate change!

Fear it!

Seems to be everything we hear.

[ChoobacKY]

It was the sacred cow farts what did it!

[InvisibleChurch]

George W. Tutankhamun’s fault.

[Sirius Lee]

It happened before Bush..

...therefore, Global Warming.

[iceskater]

Run for your lives!!! We’re all gonna die!!!!!

[stefanbatory]

it was nuclear war, right?

[Night Hides Not]

George W. Tutankhamun’s fault.

That's what Algore Hatsepshut said.

[InvisibleChurch]

Sethi Clinton: Let the letter “W” be stricken from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument of Egypt. Let the letter “W” be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of men for all time.

[imardmd1]

Mi<“Ancient climate change”, at a time when there were no nasty SUVs emitting CO2 into the atmosphere.

Yes, all they had as a fuel supply was a renewable, sustainable resource whose combustion products were recombinable into more fuel and oxidizing gas by an endless stream of photons. /s

[wmap]

In the article it says All climate is driven by the sun. When this point is brought up it is discounted as irrelevant to climate change. Always makes me suspicions

[SunkenCiv]

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[treetopsandroofs]

Just like we’re supposed to scream at right wingers that HUSSEIN IS A CITIZEN AND IS ELIGIBLE, YOU MORON!

Now we’re supposed to scream “Climate change is REAL, you moron!”

I’s so much easier to deprive Americans of their inalienable rights when they agree with Big Media’s headlines.

[KarlInOhio]

Was the civilization wiped out by the 1990s style global warming or the 1970s style global cooling. I ask because global cooling is more likely to reduce agricultural production leading to mass starvation.

[BenLurkin]

I guess “they got too big” is too simple an explanation for the academics.

[Graewoulf]

Thanks for this thread.

[Reeses]

We’re all gonna die!!!!!

That's a key leftist goal: have most of us die off so we stop causing them so much envious pain. It's funny how they frame their socialist sales pitch the reverse of what appeals to leftists. We can turn this tactic around, have ads that say "Buy an SUV so the Jones next door die off sooner!", "Eat more beef so more Chinese starve!"