Posted on 02/05/2010 7:31:57 AM PST by Palter
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So, it was either Krakatoa exploding or two massive asteroid strikes that caused the Dark Ages? Cool!!!!
Bush’s fault!!
I thought that was Barney Frank?
Meteorite iron was very much in demand during the Dark Ages. It was said that swords forged of iron from heaven were invincible in battle. Legend had it that Excalibur itself was forged from meteorite iron.
Shrug. Makes ya wonder.
Uh, 11 miles is not a tiny difference. It’s like the difference between a .22 on a necklace and the 30mm Vulcan cannon.
Also, that finding about diamonds, if they can be manipulated, could lead to some more resilient earth drillers.
“So, it was either Krakatoa exploding or two massive asteroid strikes that caused the Dark Ages? Cool!!!!”
Neither had anything to do with the culture/civilizational crash in Europe. You may be thinking about the little ice age.
EARLY MIDDLE AGES
No one definitive event marks the end of antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages. Neither the sack of Rome by the Goths under Alaric I in 410 nor the deposition in 476 of Romulus Augustulus, the last Roman emperor in the West, impressed their contemporaries as epoch-making catastrophes. Rather, by the end of the 5th century the culmination of several long-term trendsmost notably a severe economic dislocation and the invasions and settlement of the various Germanic tribes within the borders of the Western Empirehad changed the face of Rome. For the next 300 years western Europe remained essentially a primitive culture, albeit one uniquely superimposed on the complex, elaborate culture of the Roman Empire, which was never entirely lost or forgotten.
“Paging Velikosky. Paging Immanuel Velikovsky. This is your medium calling...”
Were the Dark Ages Triggered by Volcano-Related Climate Changes in the 6th Century?
The only historical event that is more debated than "the Extinction of the Dinosaurs" is "the Fall of Rome". Sheesh!
According to those who keep track of these eruptions, the 5th century (416 AD) Karkatoa eruption VEI is unknown but certainly not very large - perhaps the equilivant of St Helens at best. These was no signifigant eruption again until 1883 AD.
see here:
http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0602-00=&volpage=erupt&format=expanded#E1883520
The guy you reference may be right and si.edu may not have updated. But, he seems alone in his opinion. So I’m not going with ‘could have’, ‘perhaps’, ‘global climate modelers’, ‘tree ring data’, and ‘hypothetical’.
These are the documented eruptions during a 90 year period when the “Dark Ages” could have been effected by volcanism:
450 A.D. Ilopango (El Salvador) Erupts
Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) = 6
540 A.D. Rabaul, Papua (New Guinea) Erupts
300 million tons of aerosols.
Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) = 6
Each of these is 10X greater than St Helens.
But if it had broken up slightly earlier -- due to solar heating, say, or gravitational stresses -- that argument loses its force.
The climate change took place around 535 AD, while the asteroid impact happened in 500 AD. Don’t know if there is any documented climate change around 500 AD.
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