Byzantine Empire at its greatest extent, 565
Posted on 04/01/2019 6:21:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists recently investigated accumulated refuse in trash mounds at a Byzantine settlement called Elusa in Israel's Negev Desert... trash disposal -- once a well-organized and reliable service in outpost cities like Elusa -- ceased around the middle of the sixth century, about 100 years prior to the empire's collapse. At that time, a climate event known as the Late Antique Little Ice Age was taking hold in the Northern Hemisphere, and an epidemic known as the Justinian plague raged through the Roman Empire, eventually killing over 100 million people. Together, disease and climate change took a devastating economic toll and loosened Rome's grip on its lands to the east a century earlier than once thought...
Unlike the architecture of an ancient city, which could be repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt, landfills steadily accumulated over time, creating continuous records of human activity. Clues found in preserved garbage dumps could thereby reveal if a city was thriving or in trouble... a variety of objects: ceramic pot sherds, seeds, olive pits, charcoal from burned wood and even evidence of discarded "gourmet foods" imported from the Red Sea and the Nile... The scientists carbon-dated organic material such as seeds and charcoal in layers of trash mounds located near the city... trash had built up in that location over a period of about 150 years and that the accumulation terminated in the middle of the sixth century. This suggested there was a failure of infrastructure, which happens when a city is about to collapse... Elusa's decline began at least a century before Islamic rule wrested control of the region from the Romans... Elusa was struggling during a period that was relatively peaceful and stable; it was during this time that the Roman Emperor Justinian was expanding the empire's boundaries across Europe, Africa and Asia...
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It was caused by those Byzantine guys eating beef and bacon while driving around in their SUV’s.
Well i am sure all the chariot and cart horses farted.
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.
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
Climate change????
These people are stupid. Let em dig around in a garbage pit and leave the world alone.
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.
"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'!
Camels were the SUV of their day.
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.
And before SUV’s and Republicans! Amazing!
Absolutely!
So has the dim-witted Bronx Bartender giving her two cents yet? I await with bated breath.
Charles Martel stopped the Muzzies from conquering France.
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.
And yet, here we are.......
Hammer time!
Here we are, with only 11.8 years left to live, LOL!!!
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.
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