“No harvest was reaped”: demographic and climatic factors in the decline of the Neo-Assyrian Empire

Climatic Change

Volumn 127, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 435-446

  Schneider, Adam W ^a,b   Adalı, Selim F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT;

CLIMATIC FACTORS; MILITARY CONFLICTS; MILITARY MACHINE; OLD WORLDS; POLITICAL INSTABILITY;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

DEMOGRAPHY; DROUGHT STRESS; ECONOMIC HISTORY; HISTORICAL TIME (HUMAN HISTORY); MACHINERY; POLITICAL HISTORY; POPULATION GROWTH;

IRAQ;

EID: 84911976403     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1269-y     Document Type: Article

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