Posted on 03/21/2022 7:34:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Age of Victoria has nice episodes about the Year Without Summer covering the horrendous lost of life in the area and rhe global impact. As you probably know, one cultural legacy was the creation of the Frankstein and the vampire story from a bunch of young adults bored dealing with the horrid weather in Switzerland.
How was the red light districts back then?
More Climate Change issues, please support outlawing volcanic NOW! After all its for the children........
The women were unbearably ugly.................
They survived, altering their behavior as necessary, and continued to do the things that make them all our ancestors. People not close enough to be killed adapted just fine.
Despite the best boosterism by volcanologists, the impact of eruptions is at most, regional. The discrepancy in numbers between Greenland and Antarctica is due to the southern hemisphere's being mostly ocean.
Contrary to claims, there was not a genetic bottleneck -- that notion arose from too little data stretched over too much model.
Sidebar: I was curious about this study and Thera, but apparently the period they studied ended thousands of years before the purported "super-eruption" (phone booth explosion graphic). A signal found in a Greenland core was immediately saddled on as Theran in origin, but the chemistry didn't match Thera, and afaik still doesn't match any known volcano.
Lack of a match in that case and in the unidentified cases shown in their graph *may* indicate a marine volcano that long since eroded away, but regardless, unknown indicates no samples have been collected from a known (or unknown) volcano.
With serious danger to the Ukranian bread basket. The world may get a nasty taste of what a serious disruption of crop availability can do. Ukraine is an important exporter of grains to the world. Already millions on feeding programs are having food rations cut in half. I imagine American farmers are already planning more extensive planting this spring. At least I hope they are.
Cassiodorus and several others had something to say about that strange period of dimmed light and poor crops in the Miditerranean area.
Not without russian fertilize they aren't. And Bill Gates owns the rest.
“The population void gave us Muhamed’s goat-eating armies and Islam.”
Islam had the advantage of being both a warrior culture, and a lot of life rules such as washing up 5 times a day for prayer, using one hand for sanitary purposes and the other for eating from the communal pot, not eating certain foods especially likely to convey disease like pork and seafood, etc. Thus Islam’s fighters had a clear survival advantage by avoiding some of the serious disease spreading behaviors. Does anyone have information on their possible rats, fleas, and lice avoidance rules, also rules for dealing with dead bodies (I know quick burial was one)?
Wheat prices up 30%.......................
Wheat prices up 30%.......................
Does anyone have information on their possible rats, fleas, and lice avoidance rules, also rules for dealing with dead bodies (I know quick burial was one)?
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Live on a dairy farm sometime. They feed grain. There are always cats. The rats which spread plague through fleas thrive on grain stores. The Holy Roman Empire survived on communal grain stores. Turks survived on beef cattle, and Arabs on goats, not grain stores. Beef cattle and goats are ruminants. They can survive on grasses. The 535 ad Krakatoa eruption caused grain crops to fail. The grain stores of the Holy Roman Empire soured and dried up. The rats got sick, and passed their illnesses on to humans via fleas.
None of this happened to cattle eating Turks or to goat-eating Arabs. Both tribes took over the middle east.
It’s not just size. It’s where the volcano is located, what it spews how high up, what else is going on with the climate at the time.
But, yup, anything sending a bleep load of sulfur and particulates into the stratosphere and something wicked this way comes.
Then we’ll be all gentleman, start your engines!
Only we won’t be able to cuz they’ll be fricking electric.
Since long before 535 Jews have lived among Christians. Among other things, Jews eat grain. Like Muslims, Jews bury their dead quickly. Jews didn’t take over any territory from the Holy Roman Empire like Muslims d.id Recently an ebola epidemic spread through western Africa. It spread much more rapidly than would be typical of a bodily fluid-spread disease like ebola. Researchers discovered that the disease was being spread via the local Muslim custom of kneading the waste products out of the bodies of recently-deceased loved ones before burial.
The food laws etc were lifted from Judaism, obviously.
Nasty stuff.
5.56mm
If I remember my history, another factor is that the plague rats were black rats which live upstairs, rather than Norway Rats which are cellar and sewer rats. Another factor that did not help was that early Europe was infested with witchcraft pogroms, which often included killing of cats as familiars to witches and warlocks. There was probably a good reason that the Egyptians loved and entombed their cats.
They protected their granaries..................
I was reading some material on Roman History up to the failure of Rome in the 500s AD. It seems there were quite a lot of pandemics besides the 2 or 3 famous ones, particularly as the weather and growing conditions appeared to get worse not long after 200 AD.
My son and I were recently talking about whether the monster explosion recently of the Sunda volcano would affect our weather. I Googled and found that there would only be about 2% of the amount of ash as produced by I think they said Pinitubo, so not much to worry about. This caused by it being an explosion in water and thus not a lot of dry ash.
The fleas that infected the rats jumped to the cats (and dogs, and livestock), which meant the cats helped spread the plague.
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