In the wake of that earthquake machine borrowed from The Core to shake up Anatolia - according to the most reputable source on the Internet - comes a look at a past disaster, this one striking a bit further north. Three years of drought hit the Hatti, at or right after 1200 BC. It's a round number but the error-bars are only another three years.
As the paper points out, in the latest 1200s BC the king Suppiluliama, or "Suppiluliuma II", had successfully quelled a number of rebellions around the empire. But as Brian Boru learnt, sometimes a rebel can rise again. Especially if the capital city, already stretched for funding (because the money was blown on soldiers), now cannot get that funding (because the men roaming around Cilicia and Caria weren't minding the farm and the aqueducts back home).
'Tis a pertinent warning for labarna Recep as he's now facing that earthquake in Kizzuwadna. Blocking Twitter was not a Good Look. And I'd not advise him to blame outsiders, either.
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