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The 4.2-kiloyear (thousand years) BP aridification event (long-term drought), also known as the 4.2 ka event, was one of the most severe climatic events of the Holocene epoch. It defines the beginning of the current Meghalayan age in the Holocene epoch. Starting around 2200 BCE, it probably lasted the entire 22nd century BCE.
Jan 26, 2022 · The drought hit in roughly 2200 bc, when the Akkadian Empire dominated what is now Syria and Iraq. By 2150 bc, the empire was no more. The central authority had disintegrated, and many people...
Sep 20, 2018 · There is scant evidence, it says, that the worldwide mega-drought around 2200 B.C., which started the Meghalayan, brought ancient society to its knees. “There was no sudden, universal...
- Robinson Meyer
Jun 22, 2020 · Did a mega drought topple empires 4,200 years ago? The drought hit in roughly 2200 BC, when the Akkadian Empire dominated what is now Syria and Iraq. By 2150 BC, the empire was no more. The central authority had disintegrated, and many people had voted with their feet, leaving the region.
2200 bc Beginning of a severe centennial-scale drought in northern Africa, southwestern Asia and midcontinental North America, which very likely caused the collapse of the Old Kingdom in Egypt as well as the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia .
Aug 20, 1993 · By Boyce Rensberger. August 20, 1993 at 1:00 a.m. EDT. The long-mysterious collapse in 2200 B.C. of the Akkadian empire, the first imperial regime the world had ever known, appears to have...
Aug 1, 2011 · Recent research shows that an ancient city at the site of Tell Qarqur in Syria surprisingly expanded during a severe drought period in around 2200 BC. During this period, several civilizations of the Ancient Near East declined or collapsed, including the Akkadian Empire and the Old Kingdom of Egypt.
