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Huge Ancient Civilization’s Collapse Explained
LiveScience ^
| 5-28-2012
| Charles Choi
Posted on 05/29/2012 5:32:20 AM PDT by Renfield
The mysterious fall of the largest of the world's earliest urban civilizations nearly 4,000 years ago in what is now India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh now appears to have a key culprit ancient climate change, researchers say.
Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia may be the best known of the first great urban cultures, but the largest was the Indus or Harappan civilization. This culture once extended over more than 386,000 square miles (1 million square kilometers) across the plains of the Indus River from the Arabian Seato the Ganges, and at its peak may have accounted for 10 percent of the world population. The civilization developed about 5,200 years ago, and slowly disintegrated between 3,900 and 3,000 years ago populations largely abandoned cities, migrating toward the east....
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TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: archaeology; bangladesh; bolide; catastrophism; charleschoi; climate; dwarka; godsgravesglyphs; gujarat; gulfofcambay; gulfofcambray; harappan; harappans; impact; india; indus; indusvalley; nepal; pakistan; preharappan; stalactites; stalagmites
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To: InvisibleChurch
You guys are all joking but in reality it was Ramses Osiris Soros-hamudphet and his minion Obamakhet Stufamonkee-Init
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posted on
05/29/2012 8:25:59 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(If Romney wins the primary, I am writing-in Palin/Gingrich)
To: Renfield
It was global warming caused by friction between the soles of the feet and the ground.
>
To: Renfield
Yup, interesting (but not huge) temp change happened around 4000 years ago. Notice that we're overdue for a much larger drop; today's "warming" may be saving us from a similar cold calamity.
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posted on
05/29/2012 8:38:45 AM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(Cloud storage? Dropbox rocks! Sign up at http://db.tt/nQqWGd3 for 2GB free (and I get more too).)
To: InvisibleChurch
"Sethi Clinton: Let the letter W be stricken from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument of Egypt. Let the letter W be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of men for all time."
"So let it be written. So let it be done."
LOL! very cool, just watched that movie last night!
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posted on
05/29/2012 10:06:02 AM PDT
by
IYellAtMyTV
(Je t'aime, faire du bruit comme le cochon.)
To: IYellAtMyTV
i enjoy the movie, too. i always dig the "fuel hose' look . only Yul was cool enough to wear it. today's rock stars and celebrity schmoes are too pansy to wear it
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posted on
05/29/2012 11:08:37 AM PDT
by
InvisibleChurch
(i a m t h e m a r g i n o f e r r e r)
To: Renfield
So are we to believe that climate would never change if humans did not exist?
The climate change may have had nothing to do with the humans, but misanthropes find it very satisfying to blame them.
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posted on
05/29/2012 11:34:30 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
To: Renfield
The mysterious fall of the largest of the world's earliest urban civilizations nearly 4,000 years ago in what is now India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh now appears to have a key culprit ancient climate change, researchers say.
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posted on
05/29/2012 11:48:54 AM PDT
by
Condor51
(Yo Hoffa, so you want to 'take out conservatives'. Well okay Jr - I'm your Huckleberry)
To: Condor51
I dunno. Could be Aliens ~OR~
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posted on
05/29/2012 2:52:16 PM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: Renfield
a coastal civilization, which was drowned as glaciers melted after the end of the Younger Dryas period. I have to ask - they just stood there watching the water rise from their feet until they drowned? If so, good riddance to the fools!
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posted on
05/29/2012 2:57:43 PM PDT
by
Moltke
(Always retaliate first.)
To: Moltke; shibumi
That's what happened with Hy Brasil.
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posted on
05/29/2012 3:40:47 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Holy muscle of love.....I got a muscle of love.)
To: Sirius Lee
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posted on
05/29/2012 3:47:11 PM PDT
by
GraceG
To: Condor51
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posted on
05/29/2012 3:49:32 PM PDT
by
GraceG
To: Salamander
Hy Brasil I had never heard of it before - and like all good Irishmen I thought I was well versed in the tales of St. Brendan. Thanks!
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posted on
05/29/2012 4:08:35 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(When we cease to be good we'll cease to be great. Be for Goode.)
To: Sirius Lee
No problem but that reference is to a scene in Monty Python’s “Erik The Viking” where the disgustingly peaceful inhabitants of Hy Brasil simply stand there like grinning idiots as it sinks, with the leader constantly assuring them that this isn’t happening.
Brutally funny.
[but Brendan sure did get around]
;]
I bet you’ll enjoy this:
http://www.viewzone.com/crichton33.html
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posted on
05/29/2012 4:34:52 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Holy muscle of love.....I got a muscle of love.)
To: Salamander
I bet youll enjoy this: That is most excellent. Thank you kindly.
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posted on
05/29/2012 4:41:19 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(When we cease to be good we'll cease to be great. Be for Goode.)
To: Salamander
LOL. Thanks. “Oh noes, what’s happening to our civilization? We’s drowwwwwning here.”
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posted on
05/29/2012 4:45:18 PM PDT
by
Moltke
(Always retaliate first.)
To: IYellAtMyTV
So let it be written. So let it be doneIsn't that supposed to be "ritten"?
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posted on
05/29/2012 4:51:19 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: Sirius Lee
My pleasure.
[the Celts did *everything*, you know...it was never ‘ancient aliens’]
LOL
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posted on
05/29/2012 6:05:50 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Holy muscle of love.....I got a muscle of love.)
To: Smokin' Joe
'So let it be written. So let it be done'
"Isn't that supposed to be "ritten"?"
ROTFLMAO! Yes!
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posted on
05/29/2012 10:33:28 PM PDT
by
IYellAtMyTV
(Je t'aime, faire du bruit comme le cochon.)
To: Moltke
I rather imagined that it was only the buildings and other fixed structures that drowned; the people would have fled inland (probably repeatedly every generation or two).
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posted on
05/30/2012 3:44:45 AM PDT
by
Renfield
(Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
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