TXnMA
Posted on 11/16/2018 6:12:12 AM PST by artichokegrower
Ask medieval historian Michael McCormick what year was the worst to be alive, and he's got an answer: "536." Not 1349, when the Black Death wiped out half of Europe. Not 1918, when the flu killed 50 million to 100 million people, mostly young adults. But 536. In Europe, "It was the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year," says McCormick, a historian and archaeologist who chairs the Harvard University Initiative for the Science of the Human Past.
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Yep. Every time the temperature fell, people died.
When temperatures rise, life explodes. It’s been true ever since the Cambrian.
If you like life, you should like global warming.
If you don’t like living things, ban the essential plant nutrient, carbon dioxide, cripple the plants, starve the animals, and glaze everything over with ice.
Your call...
It’s not global warming but global cooling that will get you.
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I think the lesson is we need some global warming to act as a safety margin against volcanic eruptions.
1918 was medieval times?
Kids went there.
You meant University of Wisconsin,,,!
Cool,cool.
Just an over-view of what and where was what in the former Roman Empire at that time. I think that if I were living then and I was surrounded by the relics of Rome but with almost all of the trade destroyed, no stability and almost constant local wars but nothing conclusive and then having crop failures exceeding ancestral memories ... yep, I’d be quite discouraged!
In England, this is the estimated time of legendary King Arthur fighting the Angles & Saxons as a defender of the native Celtic Britons. [Angles, Saxons, Frisians and Danes probably ‘pushed’ by others.] Wales is completing a conversion to Christianity started under Roman times. Ireland is becoming a center for Celtic Christianity following St.Patrick’s efforts in the 400s because it is the most distant from a roiling Europe. Scotland gets its name from Irish invaders of that name moving over the then native Picts.
The Atlantic shore of Europe has become chaotic with the former Roman Empire & Germania awash from the waves of steppe barbarian invasions (Vandals, Alans and Suevi) with the Franks starting to dominate in the south above Visigothic Hispania. Also native Celtic Britons move across the English Channel to what is now Brittany (modern France) which remains independent of the Franks.
The Ostrogoths ruled in Italy and Dalmatia but will be defeated at war with the Franks and Byzantium within this century. Eastern Rome (Byzantium) remains under continuous ‘Roman’ rule but looks to reconquer the lost west while also resisting more barbarians in the Balkans and a continuous war with Persia/Iran as their MAJOR equal military adversary.
Add in a real mix of expanding Christianity BUT lots of flavors (heretical) from Arianism to Insular Celtic to Monophysitism. The principal power of ‘organized’ Christianity lies with Byzantium and the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Antioch & Alexandria. The Pope of Rome is respected but has little international power until the end of the 500s with Gregory the Great.
536 was the last year that the Detroit Lions won the Super Bowl.
do you just look at the pictures and then turn the pages?
Sorry, I didn’t get the “boxers or briefs” interpretation of UW.
“1482 years ago,
Global cooling Didn’t
Make the Headlines
Because People were just
Trying to Stay Alive!”
Whats that oldie?
The vast majority of men live lives of quiet desperation >>>>
We ARE BLESSED to live in the present !
STOLEN > from BLAM: ....I feel grateful to have been born at the best time in history, in the best country and living conditions in all of human history. I live better than most kings and royalty in all of human history...how could I have been more fortunate?..
With global warming plants grow faster... with global cooling people in 3rd world hellholes will starve. If most of ‘em can’t figure out how to prosper in good times - they damn well won’t know how to deal with real (out of their control) bad times.
Actually, the worst was 2009.
TXnMA
I Absolutely Agree!
I get upset to hear all the
Angry voices spurting out
Some Trivial issues that
Would be comical in
Comparison to Survival in
A Third World hellhole.
Actually I was hinting to a much darker side of humanity during this famine that is hard to find.
The eruption of Mt. Tambora (also in the East Indies) in 1815 was much greater than the better-known explosion of Krakatoa in 1883. It pumped so much ash into the atmosphere that 1816 was called the year without summer and the weather stayed so cool in much of the northern hemisphere that crops did not ripen, causing millions of deaths by famine and disease (300,000 in Ireland alone). The US was affected but did not suffer as badly because there were more sources of food still available.
Well, there was a famous king called Baldwin the Leper, but that was 6 centuries later:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_IV_of_Jerusalem
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