A short list of empire collapses:
- 2200-2170 BC
- Egypt--First Intermediate Period (also affected whole of Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East)
- 1700-1650 BC
- Egypt--Second Intermediate Period
- 1100-1050 BC
- Egypt--Third Intermediate Period (also affected whole of Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East)
- 1500-1450 BC
- Asia Minor--Hittite dark age after death of King Telepinus
- 1100-800 BC
- Greece--between collapse of Mycenaean civilisation and rise of classical city states
- 500-400 BC
- Italy--Italic Middle Ages; Etruscan decline also affecting Phoenicians and Greeks
- 720-200 BC
- China--Spring-Autumn and Warring States Periods
- AD 400-600
- Britain--between the departure of the Roman legions and the arrival of St Augustine
- AD 220-280
- AD 480-580
- AD 910-960
- AD 1000-1200
- Peru--between collapse of Huari-Tiahuanaco and foundation of Chimu empire
- AD 750-950
- Valley of Mexico--turmoil following collapse of Teotihuacan
- AD 400-700
- Southeastern US--between collapse of Hopewell culture and rise of Mississippian