Posted on 03/27/2025 7:49:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
/bingo!
Wasn’t N. Africa mostly desert then and Sicily/S. Italy pretty fertile then? If so, why would anyone want to go there? Enlighten me.
This event is considered the most abrupt global-scale environmental shift since the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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Other than the massive comet debris bombardment in 10,900 BC which burned off 10% of the Earth’s vegetation (and a lot of oxygen), ushered in the 1,000 yearlong Younger Dryas Event - the coldest period recorded, caused the Ice Cap to fully melt, raising the sea level worldwide 400 feet, and caused the extinction of the Mega Fauna (woolly mammoths etc).
Other than that, nothing happened.
Probably, several small islands emerged, too.
However, I have no idea how to calculate that.
That’s where the Celts crossed into North Africa.
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