relationship · rel_drought_contributed_hittite_collapse
rel_drought_contributed_hittite_collapse
The exceptionally severe drought plausibly worsened food supply and fiscal-administrative stress during the final Hittite crisis.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: plausible. This is separate from specialist review.
Recorded dataset maintenance date: 2026-08-11.
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Research description
The exceptionally severe drought plausibly worsened food supply and fiscal-administrative stress during the final Hittite crisis.
Evidence and sources
- supports · supports causal relationship
Severe Multi-Year Drought Coincident with Hittite Collapse around 1198–1196 BC — Sturt W. Manning, Cindy Kocik, Brita Lorentzen, Jed P. Sparks (2023)The exceptionally severe drought plausibly worsened food supply and fiscal-administrative stress during the final Hittite crisis.
Referenced records
- Severe Multi-Year Drought in Central Anatolia · event
- Collapse of the Hittite Central Imperial Administration · event
- The severe central Anatolian drought around 1198–1196 BCE plausibly contributed to the collapse of the Hittite central administration but is not established as a sufficient or s… · claim