The Curse of Akkad by Peter Christie 144 pages @ SPL: J 551.609 Chr
Who, or what, was Akkad, and what, exactly, was its curse? Akkad was the first known human empire, and it was destroyed by a sudden, deadly, prolonged drought. Akkad’s citizens fled, and in the dry decades that followed, the cities of the ancient empire, located in Mesopotamia, were covered by sand and dust. People believed that an angry sky god had cursed Akkad. Author Peter Christie claims that this “curse”, in the form of extreme climate change or upheaval, has continued to influence the course of human history. Serious drought conditions were likely responsible for the destruction of a number of other civilizations, such as Harappan, in the Indus Valley. In northern Peru, however, a sudden series of rainstorms caused by an El Nino brought so much flooding of crops that the people of the ancient Moche civilization starved – and the empire fell into ruins.read more
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