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 BCEEurope

    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 BCEAfrica

    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