CatastropheThe 3rd millennium BCE

Catastrophe in the 3rd millennium BCE

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged catastrophe — plague, famine, earthquake and other disasters, narrowed to the 3rd millennium BCE — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, all of it in 2500 BCE. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
2
Nations
2
Earliest
2500 BCE
Latest
2500 BCE
Africa
1
Europe
1

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. c. 2500 BCE — Europe:

    Malta

    The temple builders disappear

    Around 2500 BCE the temple-building culture came to an end for reasons still debated, and a new Bronze Age population succeeded the people who had raised the great monuments.

    Era: The Temple Builders and Prehistoric Malta

    Sources: The Megalithic Temples of Malta · World History Encyclopedia

  2. c. 2500 BCE — Africa:

    Niger

    The desert returns

    As the climate dried, the lakes retreated and the Sahara hardened into desert, pushing human settlement and trade southward toward the Sahel.

    Era: The Green Sahara and the peoples of the Ténéré

    Sources: History of Niger · Wikipedia, Archaeology of the Green Sahara · NigerHeritage