Before revision: A few commentators have associated the climate changes of this period with the end of the Uruk period, as a Dark Age associated with the floods of the Gilgamesh epic and Noah's flood of the Book of Genesis .Lamb, p. 128.
After revision: It also triggered the collapse of the Uruk period, through decreased temperatures and increased rainfall, which were believed to contribute to Babylonian and Hebrew flood myths .Lamb, p. 128.