[SunkenCiv]

The Akkad empire during the reign of Naram-Sin (2254-2218 BC). Mount Damavand is labelled in blue. Credit: Zunkir / Semhir / wiki, CC BY-SA

[a fool in paradise]

Did mere mortal men cause that Climate Change that “collapsed an empire”?

[Rashputin]

Have archaeologists found any of their SUVs, pickup trucks, and smokestack industries?

[2banana]

If only they had carbon taxes and banned SUVs...

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

When are they going to blame the “climate change” on Trump, car exhaust, coal power plants, and the JOOSZ?

Regional climate change is documented all over the Middle East, even in the old Testament and New Testament. So what? Nothing strange about it. Not caused by man.

Plagues of locust - not caused by Man.

The Flood - any big flood back then. Not caused by Man.

Mt. Vesuvius - not caused by Man.

Interesting old map of Iraq since my son drove through that famous monster red sandstorm in early 2003 while helping to liberate Iraq from Saddam. The storm probably came from Africa and ended up creating a 300 foot high wall of sand that stretched for scores of miles, if not longer, stranding the 3rd ID combat and logistics columns on the roads until it passed/subsided.

I asked my son if he saw Babylon and Ur, but all he saw was the tail-light of the truck in front of him due to the sand. So much for my Jewish son’s trip back to the lands/cities of our ancestors. However, he did help liberate the country, so that’s cool after thousands of years of exile.

[stylin19a]

The anguish of the era is perfectly captured in the ancient Curse of Akkad text, which describes a period of turmoil with water and food shortages: "... the large arable tracts yielded no grain, the inundated fields yielded no fish, the irrigated orchards yielded no syrup or wine, the thick clouds did not rain."

kinda like the midwest dust bowls of the 1930's in the U.S.A. & Canada ?

[jpsb]

Not an expert but I doubt the assertion that Akkadian Empire was the world first empire. Egypt for one was as old if not older.

[Boomer]

The vegan’s did it. Not enough good meat protein caused them to fart all these dry farts instead of wet ones which caused the drought.

You heard it here first. Did you hear that Al Gore? It was drought farts by vegan’s causing climate change!

[Deplorable American1776]

Did they find any SUVs there, yet?

[mc5cents]

The climate has been changing since God said “Let there be light.”

[reed13k]

Sounds to me like a lack of crop rotation coupled with a drought not ‘climate change’.

[Wuli]

They had not prepared for the lean years as the Egyptians had - in that same era - storing grain for future use.