Great Warming Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

Name: Great Warming Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
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ISBN: 9781596913929

ISBN-10: 1596913924

ISBN-13: 9781596913929

Edition: 2008

Authors: Brian Fagan

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How the earth's previous global warming phase, from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries, reshaped human societies from the Arctic to the Sahara--a wide-ranging history with sobering lessons for our own time. From the tenth to the fifteenth centuries the earth experienced a rise in surface temperature that changed climate worldwide--a preview of today's global warming. In some areas, including Western Europe, longer summers brought bountiful harvests and population growth that led to cultural flowering. In the Arctic, Inuit and Norse sailors made cultural connections across thousands of miles as they traded precious iron goods. Polynesian sailors, riding new wind patterns, were able to…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 3/4/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


Author's Note



A Time of Warming



"The Mantle of the Poor"



The Flail of God



The Golden Trade of the Moors



Inuit and Qadlunaat



The Megadrought Epoch



Acorns and Pueblos



Lords of the Water Mountains



The Lords of Chimor



Bucking the Trades



The Flying Fish Ocean



China's Sorrow



The Silent Elephant


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index