June
23
/ 2020
Following Julius Caesar ’s assassination in 44 BC extreme climate change led to crop failures which in turn fueled the increasing social unrest in Rome, adding greatly to the social disruption caused by the civil war, that bought the Republic to an Empire. The string of events caused the collapse of the Roman Republic. But now, a recent study suggests the cause of the climate change was a volcanic eruption of Mt. Okmok, over 9,000km (6,000 miles) away in Alaska. Tracking The Civilization Eating Fire-Dragon A new paper published in PNAS by environmental researcher Joe McConnell of the Desert Research Institute, which is affiliated with the University of Nevada, Reno, explains how ancient Roman writers described short growing seasons cause
