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: 9781596916012

ISBN-10: 159691601X

ISBN-13: 9781596916012

Edition: 2009

Authors: Brian Fagan, Brian Fagan

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A breakout bestseller on how the earth's previous global warming phase reshaped human societies from the Arctic to the Saharaa wide-ranging history with sobering lessons for our own time. From the tenth to the fifteenth century the earth experienced a rise in surface temperature that changed climate worldwidea 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 settle the remotest islands…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 3/10/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English



Preface


Author's Note



A Time of Warming



"The Mantle of the Poor"



The Fail 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