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Ancient Garbage Heaps Show Fading Byzantine Empire Was 'Plagued' By Disease and Climate Change
LiveScience ^ | March 25, 2019 | Mindy Weisberger

Posted on 04/01/2019 6:21:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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Byzantine Empire at its greatest extent, 565

Byzantine Empire at its greatest extent, 565

1 posted on 04/01/2019 6:21:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 04/01/2019 6:21:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

It was caused by those Byzantine guys eating beef and bacon while driving around in their SUV’s.


3 posted on 04/01/2019 6:29:16 PM PDT by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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Well i am sure all the chariot and cart horses farted.


4 posted on 04/01/2019 6:35:22 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Climate sure is changing. First it’s nasty Winter, then that horrible Spring time followed by the golden rays of warm sunshine in Summer. And to top it all off there is Autumn, you know where all the leaves turn all those horrible colors. Give me a fricking break liberals. This has only been going on for say a few billion years. And you are gonna tell me the world in gonna end in 10 years. Stupid is a stupid does.


5 posted on 04/01/2019 6:40:36 PM PDT by ImNotLying (The Constitution is an instrument for the people to restrain the government...Patrick Henry)
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To: SunkenCiv

If I had to choose between bubonic plague, Visigoths, Vandals, Huns, Persian and Muslim invaders, and the temperature getting 2 degrees cooler or warmer over 100 years (not that there is actually any proof of this), I would prefer the slightly cooler or warmer temperature. Below is a good textbook on the Byzantine empire. Oddly it never mentions climate change, because only a moron thinks climate change was anything but a trivial contributor to the advance or decline of any civilization that ever existed. Conversely, I guess climate change was a contributor to the advance of the Turks who conquered Constantinople in 1453, so Erdogan should want more of it. I wish I had a nickel for every idiotic statement made about the significance of climate change.

https://www.amazon.com/History-Byzantium-Timothy-Gregory/dp/140518471X


6 posted on 04/01/2019 6:40:43 PM PDT by brookwood (Obama said you could keep your plan - now says higher taxes will improve the weather)
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To: SunkenCiv

Climate change????
These people are stupid. Let em dig around in a garbage pit and leave the world alone.


7 posted on 04/01/2019 6:40:53 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: SunkenCiv

They ACTUALLY used “Climate Change” in the title.

I clicked on it hurriedly to see if it was that crazy.

Proof that in order for an article to be printed it MUST contain global warming and/or some Trump bash.

Climate change should read “Environment change” because they done messed up where they call home.


8 posted on 04/01/2019 6:40:58 PM PDT by Celerity
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"It was caused by those Byzantine guys eating beef and bacon vegan falafel while driving around in their SUV’s farting camels."

"what urban existence in the past really looked like was in the garbage,"
Talk about, "garbage in, garbage out"! Future archeologists will say, 'they fell to climate phobia and transgenderism obsession'!

9 posted on 04/01/2019 6:41:34 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: outofsalt

Camels were the SUV of their day.


10 posted on 04/01/2019 6:44:13 PM PDT by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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Couple of battles go a different way, the Roman Empire never falls, Islam dies on the vine, and/or remains geographically isolated, and, oh yeah, none of us are ever born. Dang.

11 posted on 04/01/2019 6:44:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

And before SUV’s and Republicans! Amazing!


12 posted on 04/01/2019 6:45:16 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: SunkenCiv

Absolutely!


13 posted on 04/01/2019 6:45:47 PM PDT by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: SunkenCiv

So has the dim-witted Bronx Bartender giving her two cents yet? I await with bated breath.


14 posted on 04/01/2019 6:46:12 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: SunkenCiv

Charles Martel stopped the Muzzies from conquering France.


15 posted on 04/01/2019 6:47:56 PM PDT by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: brookwood
Climate change is 100% natural 100% of the time, and yet it has resulted in the series of replacement cultures and civilizations in Europe (including the British Isles), the Middle East, Asia, and even the Americas. That isn't trivial, nor am I a moron.

16 posted on 04/01/2019 6:54:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

And yet, here we are.......


17 posted on 04/01/2019 6:57:44 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: wjcsux
Hammer time!

18 posted on 04/01/2019 7:01:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Here we are, with only 11.8 years left to live, LOL!!!


19 posted on 04/01/2019 7:03:20 PM PDT by Fireone (Build the gallows first, then the wall!)
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To: SunkenCiv

so if they were ruined by climate change how come we are here now, shouldn’t the climate be so much more worse?

I would think this helps show that the climate has it’s cycles it’s all ok, just a little rough at times but all cyclical.


20 posted on 04/01/2019 7:06:51 PM PDT by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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