# Consecutive harvest failures in central Anatolia made the capital and its grain system unsustainable.

> Most likely: Consecutive harvest failures in central Anatolia made the capital and its grain system unsustainable.

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# Consecutive harvest failures in central Anatolia made the capital and its grain system unsustainable.

Consecutive harvest failures in central Anatolia made the capital and its grain system unsustainable.

**Most likely** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests partly supported it: two pieces of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- A severe multi-year drought in central Anatolia just before the abandonment.
- Late Hittite texts on grain shortage and imports.

## What would rule it out

- The abandonment dated well before the drought.

## Evidence 2 for · 1 against

[Fifteen significant droughts across the kingdom's last century suggest a cumulative decline.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bronze-age-collapse/evidence/EVD0D464X2P04EZ/fifteen-significant-droughts-across-the-kingdoms-last)

Suggestive

FOR

[Three consecutive severe dry years about 1198–1196 BC in the Gordion record, 230 km from Hattusa.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bronze-age-collapse/evidence/EVD0D464WTW2GPD/three-consecutive-severe-dry-years-about-11981196-bc-in-the)

Supported

FOR

[Thirteenth-century texts on grain shortages lack detail and are read differently by different scholars.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bronze-age-collapse/evidence/EVD0D464XAG5CSJ/thirteenth-century-texts-on-grain-shortages-lack-detail-and)

Suggestive

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[Why was Hattusa abandoned?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bronze-age-collapse/questions/QST0D464N8P0FCE/why-was-hattusa-abandoned)

Most likelyThe court moved away for political reasons, leaving the capital to decline

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