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The study of history used to be primarily the study of kings, wars, and great men. But that is the old stuff. A whole new group of historians has emerged in the past couple of centuries who are looking at history differently. Rather than just concentrating on the actions of great men, (a few) great women, and wars, they are going for the big picture. They are looking at the role of disease and plagues in affecting history, the effects of oceanic currents and desert winds on long-term climate change, and the effects of catastrophic events--objects from space or massive volcanic eruptions--on the rise and fall of empires and peoples. This is fascinating new material in which history and a variety of sciences intersect.
"Nuclear Winter?" Scientists today are looking with interest and concern at the growing activity of volcanos around the world. Apparently this has happened before during human history, and of course, much more before we were around. What we have not until now understood is these events have had an enormous affect on governments and religions. One work that is a must-read is David Keys' Catastrophe: A Quest for the Origins of the Modern World (1999). Keys has written the ultimate historic detective story and takes us through his investigation, and concludes with a cautionary look into the future.
The story is that in 535 AD, something happened that was the natural equivalent of what scientists fear would befall the world's climate in the event of nuclear war: the so-called "nuclear winter." According to David Keys: "In that appalling potential future disaster, hydrogen bomb explosions would force vast quantities of pulverized debris, dust, and temporarily vaporized earth up into the atmosphere. There, this nuclear pollution would form a barrier which would prevent much of the sun's light and heat from reaching the ground. Temperatures would fall, the world's climate system would be thrown into chaos, and famine followed...
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