{"id":6534,"date":"2016-03-28T12:43:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T16:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6534"},"modified":"2016-03-28T12:43:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T16:43:26","slug":"ten-civilizations-that-collapsed-due-to-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/03\/ten-civilizations-that-collapsed-due-to-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten civilizations that collapsed due to drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we are not in drought here in the Southeast at the moment (although abnormally dry conditions are expanding in the region due to lack of rainfall and warm temperatures), drought is never far from the mind of farmers. \u00a0Jeff Masters of <em>Weather Underground<\/em> published a blog post earlier this month on some civilizations that fell apart due to long-term and persistent drought. \u00a0You might enjoy reading it at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/blog\/JeffMasters\/ten-civilizations-or-nations-that-collapsed-from-drought\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/blog\/JeffMasters\/ten-civilizations-or-nations-that-collapsed-from-drought<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6535\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6535\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/Mesa_Verde_National_Park_Cliff_Palace_2006_09_12.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6535\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6535\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/Mesa_Verde_National_Park_Cliff_Palace_2006_09_12-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park.  Source: Andreas F. Borchert, Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/Mesa_Verde_National_Park_Cliff_Palace_2006_09_12-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/Mesa_Verde_National_Park_Cliff_Palace_2006_09_12-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/Mesa_Verde_National_Park_Cliff_Palace_2006_09_12.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park. Source: Andreas F. Borchert, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we are not in drought here in the Southeast at the moment (although abnormally dry conditions are expanding in the region due to lack of rainfall and warm temperatures), drought is never far from the mind of farmers. \u00a0Jeff Masters of Weather Underground published a blog post earlier this month on some civilizations that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6536,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534\/revisions\/6536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}