- c. 1900 BCEAsia
Decline of the Harappan cities
The major cities are gradually abandoned as weakening monsoons and shifting rivers undermine the agricultural base, marking the end of the civilisation's urban phase.
Era: The Indus Valley Civilisation
Sources: Indus Valley Civilization · World History Encyclopedia, Indus Valley Civilisation · Wikipedia
- c. 1900 BCEAsia
Decline of the Harappan cities
The major cities are gradually abandoned as weakening monsoons and shifting rivers undermine the agricultural base, ending the civilisation's urban phase.
Era: The Indus Valley Civilisation
Sources: Indus civilization · Encyclopædia Britannica
- c. 1200–1100 BCEEurope
Bronze Age collapse and the Greek Dark Ages
The Mycenaean palaces were destroyed and writing was lost in the wider Bronze Age collapse, ushering in centuries of decline known as the Greek Dark Ages.
Era: Minoan, Mycenaean and the Bronze Age Aegean
Sources: Bronze Age Aegean · World History Encyclopedia, Mycenaean civilization · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- c. 1180 BCEAsia
Bronze Age collapse
Around 1200–1180 BCE the Hittite state and Hattusa were destroyed amid the wider collapse of eastern Mediterranean civilisations, ending Anatolia's first great imperial age.
Era: Ancient Anatolia: Çatalhöyük, the Hittites and Troy
Sources: The Hittites · World History Encyclopedia, Anatolia · Encyclopædia Britannica
CatastropheThe 2nd millennium BCE
Catastrophe in the 2nd millennium BCE
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged catastrophe — plague, famine, earthquake and other disasters, narrowed to the 2nd millennium BCE — 4 of them, drawn from 4 nations, running from 1900 BCE to 1180 BCE. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 4
- Nations
- 4
- Earliest
- 1900 BCE
- Latest
- 1180 BCE
- Asia
- 3
- Europe
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.