Understanding collapse ancient history and modern myths
Understanding Collapse explores the collapse of ancient civilisations, such as the Roman Empire, the Maya, and Easter Island. In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around colla...
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press
cop. 2017
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991009281299708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introducing collapse
- 2. Egypt : the Old Kingdom falls
- 3. Akkad : the end of the world's first empire
- 4. The Indus Valley : a truly lost civilisation?
- 5. The end of Minoan Crete
- 6. The kingdoms of Mycenaean Greece
- 7. The Hittites and the Eastern Mediterranean
- 8. The fall of the Western Roman Empire
- 9. Collapse and revolution in Mesoamerica
- 10. The classic Maya collapse
- 11. Collapse in the Andes
- 12. Angkor and the Khmer
- 13. The incredible survival of Rapa Nui
- Conclusions.
