Floods, famines, and emperors, El Niño and the fate of civilizations, Brian Fagan
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Floods, famines, and emperors, El Niño and the fate of civilizations, Brian Fagan
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275) and index
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non fiction
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Floods, famines, and emperors
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40743181
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Brian Fagan
Sub title
El Niño and the fate of civilizations
Summary
In this dazzlingly original new book, archaeologist Brian Fagan shows that short-term climate shifts have been a major--and hitherto unrecogonized--force in history. El Nino-driven droughts have brought on the collapse of dynasties in Egypt; El Nino monsoon failures have caused historic famines in India; and El Nino floods have destroyed whole civilizations in Peru. Other short-term climate changes may have caused the mysterious abandonment of the Anasizi dwellings of the American Southwest and the collapse of the ancient Maya empire, as well a schanged the course of European history
Table Of Contents
Part 1. The Christmas Child. The great visitation ; Guano happens ; ENSO ; The North Atlantic oscillation -- Part 2. El Niños in antiquity. A time of warming ; Pharaohs in crisis ; The Moche Lords ; The classic Maya collapse ; The ancient ones -- Part 3. Climate change and the stream of time. The little ice age ; "Drought follows the plow" ; El Niños that shook the world ; The fate of civilizations
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