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Climate, Culture, and Catastrophe in the Ancient World (1440 words) |
 | This was the beginning of the Younger Dryas, (10500 BC) a millenium in which the circulation system of the North Atlantic went into a kind of planetary fibrillation, the African monsoons migrated southward, drying the desert. |
| BP (6000-3500 BC) at which time the temperature is warming culminating in an era warmer than present, when equatorial weather patterns may have reached farther north than at present, and the westerly storms of the north would have been confined to latitudes higher than at present. |
| By 4500 BC the favorable climatic conditions and stabilized lower alluvial plains favoring territorial control and mound building (4500 BC) among native Amercan groups in the lower valleys. |
| Dalyan (3524 words) |
| Ardvates (317-284 BC) who was a Persian provincial governor under the Seleucids broke away from the Seleucids rule to create the Kingdom of Armenia, but the Seleucids quickly regained control and lost it just as quickly as the kingdom was split into two. |
| In 94 BC it was re-united by Tigranes 1st as the Kingdom of Armenia and for the period 83-69 BC became very powerful. |
| The Romans arrived in 190 BC and were for a time content to leave the Anatolia region to rule its self. |
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