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The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean - Climate Change and the Decline of the East, 950-1072 (Paperback)
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The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean - Climate Change and the Decline of the East, 950-1072 (Paperback)
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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.
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