CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Studies) at the University of Colorado-Boulder posted an interesting story earlier this week about how changes in climate, specifically a megadrought, may have contributed to the collapse of the Assyrian Empire in the 7th century BC. Assyria was one of the most powerful empires on earth and was located in modern-day northern Iraq.
You can read about it at https://cires.colorado.edu/news/climate-may-have-helped-crumble-one-ancient-world%E2%80%99s-most-powerful-civilizations.
