535 AD — The “Dark Ages” Begin – Scientific Growth Stops !
Volcano Krakatoa Explodes, plunging the Whole Planet into Darkness !
http://customers.hbci.com/~wenonah/history/535ad.htm
535 AD
The nobles were returning from the middle east “HOLY WARS”.
Pope John II died.
There were days of darkness.
The plague swept around the world three times in about ten years.
There were seven years of crop failures.
Nations changed their religions.
Empires Fell.
In places great drought destroyed the land.
In other places floods brought chaos.
Tree rings didn’t show normal growth for fifteen years.
Extreme weather events of 535–536
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_weather_events_of_535%E2%80%93536
The 536 event and ensuing famine have been suggested as an explanation for the deposition of hoards of gold by Scandinavian elites at the end of the Migration Period. The gold may have been deposited as a sacrifice to appease the gods and get the sunlight back.[23][24]
The decline of Teotihuacán, a huge city in Mesoamerica, is also correlated with the droughts related to the climate changes, with signs of civil unrest and famines.
David Keys’ book speculates that the climate changes may have contributed to various developments, such as the emergence of the Plague of Justinian, the decline of the Avars, the migration of Mongolian tribes towards the West, the end of the Sassanid Empire, the collapse of the Gupta Empire, the rise of Islam, the expansion of Turkic tribes, and the fall of Teotihuacán.[11] In 2000, a 3BM Television production (for WNET and Channel Four) capitalized upon Keys’ book. This documentary, under the name Catastrophe! How the World Changed, was broadcast in the US as part of PBS’s Secrets of the Dead series. However, Keys and Wohletz’ ideas are not widely accepted at this point. Reviewing Keys’ book, the British archaeologist Ken Dark commented that “much of the apparent evidence presented in the book is highly debatable, based on poor sources or simply incorrect” and that “Nonetheless, both the global scope and the emphasis on the 6th century AD as a time of wide-ranging change are commendable, and the book contains some fascinating and obscure information which will be new to many. However, it fails to demonstrate its central thesis and does not offer a convincing explanation for the many changes discussed.”
Apocalypse Forever: The Root of Islam Was a Very Dark Year
http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/MarkTwain40627.htm
Occasionally environmental conditions are so stupendously bad that it’s noticed by trees all over the world. As these very long, and very broad master chronologies evolved, certain dates in history began to stand out as being distinctly unusual. As described in Exodus to Arthur: Catastrophic Encounters with Comets, by Mike Baillie, those dates are: 3195 BC, 2354 BC, 1628 BC, 1159 BC, 207 BC, 44 BC, and 540 AD.
Of these seven dates, 540 AD stands out as the most accessible, the best documented, and the most severe. The episode had a double minimum, beginning in 536 AD and plunging further yet to another event piggybacked on at 540 AD. Until recently, historians had little notion that this dramatic climatic event had occurred. The accounts left by contemporary observers were poorly understood and overshadowed by later historical events. In fact, those later events, it turns out, may have been caused, directly or indirectly, by the weather of AD 536. The Dark Ages actually were dark.
“The Root of Islam Was a Very Dark Year”
Yup.
I became a believer in the 535 A.D. catastrophe when I pulled out my Time-Life book on the Mayans (written before the David Keys book) to see what they were doing at that time. They did nothing. The book said that between 534 and 593, the city of Tikal left no written records.
AD 635-700s: The Islamic conquest of about half of the former Roman empire—including it’s breadbasket, Egypt & Libya.
With Muslim pirates also trolling the Mediterranean—the sophisticated Roman international sea trade routes—and land routes of the east and south, are cut off and trade comes to an end. With trade cut off to the North, the economy shrivels....and with it culture and education.
The Muslim conquests, as much or more than any other factor, brought in the Dark Ages to Europe....