Recently by Schneider at the University of California, San Diego (Adam Schneider, University of California, San Diego), as well as Turkey's Ann's Center for the Anatolia civilization of Dali (Selim Adal ı, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations in Turkey) in the journal of "climate Change" (Climatic Change), according to a paper published on The decline of the once-mighty Assyrian Empire (911-609 BC) may be more than civil war and political instability. Archaeological, historical and palaeo-climatic evidence suggests that climate factors and population growth may have also played a role.
In the 9th century BC, the Assyrian empire in northern Iraq began to expand into much of the near east. It peaked in the early 7th century BC and became the largest empire in the near east at that time. But why the Assyrian empire began its rapid collapse at the end of the 7th century BC has puzzled scholars ever since. Most scholars blame civil war, political unrest, and the fall of Nineveh, the Assyrian capital, to the babylonian empire in 612 BC, resulting in the death (self-imburning or killing) of Sinsharishkun. Still, it remains a mystery why the Assyrian empire, a military power at the time, collapsed so suddenly and so quickly.
They point to striking parallels between the severe drought that occurred in the late seventh century B.C. and the violent riots that followed in Syria and Iraq, and the severe drought and subsequent political conflicts in modern Syria and northern Iraq. From a global perspective, they conclude, modern societies should pay attention to what happens when rulers prioritize short-term economic and political policies over supporting long-term economic security and risk aversion. Schneider and adali argue that population growth and drought were also major contributors to the fall of the Assyrian empire. Recent paleocroclimatological data show that the near east became drier in the second half of the 7th century BC. During this period, the region also experienced significant population growth as a result of the forced resettlement of the peoples of the conquered areas. The authors argue that this greatly reduced the country's ability to withstand severe droughts, such as in 657 BC. They also point out that within five years of this drought, the political and economic stability of the Assyrian empire had weakened, leading to a series of civil wars that dealt a fatal blow to the empire.
After a brief reading of Assyrian history, I think that in addition to population growth and drought, the endless wars and profligacy of the Sargonid dynasty may also have contributed to the fall of the Assyrian empire. Sargon ii's son simba that in cloth (Sennacherib, 704-681 BC), Chinese translation of the bible Sennacherib), the famous "incomparable palace", the side length of nearly 200 meters, including two hall, a oval building and a botanical garden and a pavilion, in the palace of relief for up to 3000 meters, courtesy of the British museum.
While his successor not building, but the next successor of Assyria barney pull (Ashurbanipal, 668-627 BC) is the construction of a huge luxury barney palace, the pull of Assyria set of mud in the version of the library, the library is a collection of the assyrians known books from all over the world, with countless cuneiform mud version (about thirty thousand), including language, history, literature, religion, medicine and astronomy and so on various aspects of knowledge. Although these clay tablets for generations of scholars study the Assyrian empire is a very valuable information, but I think, after several years in the Assyrian empire (from sargon ii to barney and other four pull king of Assyria, has always been battled), plus "incomparable palace" and the king of Assyria barney pull out the construction of the palace, and occur in the symplectic that in time will be the capital moved to the events of Nineveh, and the Assyrian empire folk should also MinQiongCaiJin! So, when the drought happened in 657 BC (remember that it was ashurbanipal, perhaps building his palace and library!) And then there would be a series of upheavals, which would eventually lead to the foreigners, like Babylon and media, who thought they had a chance, to invade together and cause destruction, which was not so unexpected!
On the other hand, modern people have a lot of historical materials to provide us with reference, and we also have relevant knowledge and technology; This allows us to piece together what might have gone wrong from the past. So there is no excuse for pretending to be stupid or ignorant if we choose not to enact policies that promote long-term sustainability.
But, as history is repeated, Anna sand PPL, Maya, the Easter island, angkor empire ", and now add the assyrians, can only say that when we peruse all ancient dynasties, is lose in the history of repetitive (similar events took place in China in tang dynasty), but when we look back to see modern society, only to find that: although we should have no reason to "act" and "ignorance", but "clown" and "ignorance" is so much, can not sigh?
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