How This Mega Volcano Caused A Deadly Plague That Swept The Roman Empire 

Two thousand million is the most British way to say 2 billion 😂

I didn’t realize how far our knowledge of this event had come in 30 years. Wow!

This was absolutely fascinating. I learned a lot of history in particular how the various cultures existed in the same time frames. If one (really big) volcano could literally cause the entire world to change so drastically think what would happen if something similar happened today.

horses can't eat moldy hay

Not well know in Med Science History - I knew working at NIH-Bethesda, MD at time of Mt. St. Helens' eruption - NIH sent medical research scientists to Mt. St. Helen's to investigate eruption's impact on med health. The eruption caused two new virus mutations researched & labeled in NIH research archives.

I love how people with a British accent say "laboratory" it sounds so classy & sinister at the same time.

Interestingly, "years without a summer" are great news for that year's crop of saguaro seedlings. Bumper crops of massive same-aged cacti can often be traced back to volcanism somewhere in the world.

Now now, don't give ideas to politicians

Krakatoa does NOT lie off the coast of Indonesia, it IS part of Indonesia.

How many times has this documentary been recycled under different titles? Subtle clickbait.

This eruption likely caused the migration of Polynesian peoples to New Zealand

I always get interested in the first few minutes before recognizing the office of a hoarder. Not a bad doc, but it gets uploaded so often (w different thumbnail) it’s bizarre.

Bring out your de-e-e-a-a-d!!

2:10 I mean they very much did witness that 😂. Even wrote about it 😂

Oh wow. That “super computer” is a throwback!

Well, I have never seen this documentary before, and It is filled with solid research to support its hypothesis. The takeaway for me is "it has happened before, and it will happen again."

"Greed for ivory is what brought the roof in" in Constantinople. [15:13] Damn if that doesn't tell you that the main flaw in human societies at mass scale has never changed, even thousands of years later. And so incredible that one single 'act of God' reverberated around the world to such an extent.

Correlation does not necessarily imply causation.

Fascinating!

I'm wondering if this was on the learning channel back in the late 90's

14:21 almost a poetic justice - greed bring the plague

Good insight about how to plague started and spread

Abrupt climate change will also bring deadly plagues as the permafrost continues to melt and as organisms and viruses that have been frozen for thousands of years are released.

Wait till they hear about the Toba supervolcano.

great video

when was this first published, 1995? edit: I dont mind, but I think you should be clear about it

very very interesting guys

Here is what Gemini has to say about a 10x Krakatoa supereruption regarding the resulting tsunami If we scale the 1883 Krakatoa eruption's tsunami by a factor of 10 while keeping all key factors similar, here's what we can expect: Increased Wave Height: The 1883 Krakatoa eruption generated tsunamis with maximum heights reaching around 42 meters (138 feet) along the Javan coast. Scaling this by 10 suggests potential wave heights of 420 meters (1380 feet). This is an enormous wave, exceeding the height of most skyscrapers. Greater Inundation Distance (Run-up): The 1883 tsunami caused inundation (flooding) several kilometers inland in some areas. Scaling this by 10 implies the potential for the tsunami to travel 10 times further inland, reaching areas much further from the coast. Wider Affected Area: The 1883 tsunami primarily impacted coastlines around the Sunda Strait (Indonesia). Scaling it up suggests a much wider affected area, potentially reaching coastlines hundreds of kilometers further away depending on the specific underwater geography. Important Considerations: This is a hypothetical scenario. Real-world factors like underwater topography and coastline features can significantly influence a tsunami's path and amplification. Scaling by a factor of 10 assumes a linear relationship, which might not be entirely accurate for complex phenomena like tsunamis. The actual increase in wave height and run-up could be slightly less or more than 10 times the original values. Landslides and underwater features could further amplify the tsunami's impact in specific areas. In Conclusion: A 10x scaled version of the 1883 Krakatoa tsunami would be a catastrophic event with devastating consequences. Coastal regions hundreds of kilometers away could be inundated by enormous waves, causing widespread destruction and loss of life. This scenario highlights the importance of tsunami preparedness and early warning systems in coastal communities. There is no evidence of a tsunami that even reached double the size of the 1883. A tsunami larger than 100 meters and several hundred to thousand kilometers area of effect, wouldve struck populated areas in asia with developed cultures, historic,geographic,oceanographic evidence would be hard to miss. In the 5th and 6th to the 11th century the Chola Empire ruled over vast area of india,south east asia and all sort of malayan and indonesian islands including java. Although there is not a lot knowledge about details of the Chola Empire before the 7th century a event on that scale wouldve permeated for generations to come and its absolutely unlikely that not even myths wouldve survived about a catastrophe of that magnitude. The Chola Empire lasted for 1500 years.

The Suez Canal wasn't fully constructed until late 1869. How were traders sailing through there in the 6th century?

lol the "supercomputer" probably couldn't handle Minecraft in 2024

it's strange to imagine a people starved by nature and defeated by humans with many sold into slavery should flee...but end up being strong enough to defeat healthy settled peoples to the west. ack!

Just wait! This can and will happen again.

There was a huge hanta virus outbreak In South America about that same time

Is humanity now prepared for this kind of events? Suddenly those paranoid dudes which dig tunnels deep in the ground and fill them with food, tools and survival gear don't seem that paranoid, do they?

Why does a volcanic eruption trigger drought?

……this vid was ORIGINALLY from UK made tv show entitled ‘Catastrophe’………

I like how this is continuation of prev vid shame wasn't name as it

I believe that Yellowstone is going to be worse....I just hope that I'm dead before it happens ❤

I just have to comment on these "barbarians" who never bathed, never washed their clothes, and whose plates were cleaned by the women licking them dry.... yes, it sounds gross to us now BUT think about how strong their immune systems probably were! 😂

Still good stuff...🤔📚🤓

Thanks,

It's called a failed economy due to lack of food.

Yk you guys can’t just post the same video 10 times with different titles right? Like we aren’t dumb 🤣🤣… also idk if anyone else remembers that this particular doc has been around for years… jeez

Nero is coming

So, according to this, a few degrees warmer would have stopped the bubonic plague as well as being helpful when the sky gets darkened and the temperature falls after a large volcanic eruption. So maybe global warming has its perks?

You can't call it the Roman Empire when they didn't even hold Rome anymore.

those computers are ancient!

Heracles of the greekCity State of Athens shortly after the building of the Parthenon, died of a plague along with a third of Athens. I will venture this was also Yesenia Pistes. Hundreds of years before the Byzantine Empire.

where was this documentary 5 years ago?

13:32 Alexandria placed far away from the Nile delta? Not the most accurate of maps...

Lazarus and the rich man

Cool story!

2000 million 😳Hiroshima bombs ,ahh let that sink in a bit.

Ha! Yellowstone: "Hold my beer...."

An eruption in the 6th Century AD cannot have caused the Antonine Plague, which was in the 2nd Century AD.

Holy fuck that’s crazy

There is nothing "humble" regarding the flea.

Oooh 1990s CGI woooow

Do you think that the eruption is what caused the abandonment of South American civilization or ushered in what would become the dark ages?

I hope that virus will not effect the people of Iceland and Italy who live near those 2024 volcanic eruptions.

1:15 evel-mevel - it's important that we, Bulgarians came in Europe and gave a lot in science, languages, even you to pray in your own language instead in Latin. 😎

Don't you mean all cattle, not just cows?

There is more to this backstory that is not being said - about the REAL FALL and implosion of the Western European Roman Empire. In the 400s-600s, the massive population refugees that came INTO the European theater, WAS CAUSED by the invasion of the Chinese-named Wu Hei, who invaded from Siberia down into China and northern India and eastern Persia. This caused the majority of these populations to flee westward. Huns (Chinese capitol Huangs) Saxons (South Huangs), Angles (Huangs), Jutes (religious group under leader Judah Tse), Slavs (religous group under leader Lau Tse), Vranagians (Persian-Huang intermarrieds), Vandals (Indian Panthali tribe), Ostrogoths (Eastern European Goths, Indian Gautama tribe), Visigoths (Western European/North African Goths, Indian Gautama tribe). It is also remnant other populations of dark skinned people, invaded into and settled in the (later) Central Arab Republics, Mideast, and Egypt. These "Arabs" (Hebrew erebs, dark skinned people) were not biblical Ishmaelite, and not ancient populations there. They came from China, India, and eastern Persia. All these fled from massive drought, volcanic climate change, planetary heat dome cycles, disease, war invasion ... westward. The Wu Hei who appeared out of Siberia, like the 800 years later (1200s CE) Mongols ... WERE ... Mayans, Mi-ho-ui-cans ... Wu Hei. Both of these groups came from the (known) 400 year cycles of civilization and climate collapse in the Mayan empire 1200 BCE - 1200 CE. It is the Aztec empire, that came down at the end of the Mayan dynastic collapse, and started the Aztec empire (1200s - 1513 CE). All these events pushed out these Central Americans into North America, the West Coast of North America, gathering up horses (which were first native to North America - not the Old World), cut down forests, made extensive sailing ships, and sailed to the Siberian steppes and Asia (in both 400s and 1200s CE periods). The Mayan Wu Hei and the Mayan Mongols (Mayan Cohols, Gauls) were NOT indigenous to the Siberian steppes, they were foreign populations that entered into the Old World .... This is part of the real worldwide population movement, ALONG SIDE, and being the possible primary reason for massive population relocations in this 400s-600s period of time - is climate collapse and then this volcanic event.

Very interesting program based on understanding the health, politics, and migration. Quite interesting. But your high-tone bells, and horns plus flute music really hurt my ears so much that I ended up with an extreme headache, having to quit listening/watching. Any way you could 1) lower the volume, 2) lower the tone of the incessant bells 3) eliminate the background music and bells entirely? I think using one or more of the methods listed could greatly improve this program. Thanks!

The sounds are too distracting - I can't bare it, I'm sorry.

This is one of those videos I really want to enjoy, but the ridiculous twanging sounds and bells every so often jar me I wish someone could re-upload these videos with a different soundtrack and narration

Are all revelations of bad? No revelations of good happening?

Doooooom!

Old out of date information

His dates are all askewed.

This is a re-upload.

And when this happen again, most snowflakes around the WORLD will not survive

How come Alexandria being dislodged about 500km to the west on your Africa map 😂🤣😂

2 thousand million Hiroshima bombs? Bullshit.

This was stolen from another channel

TLDR; Zombies.

Like this is not their's fault, because they were too greedy no no no, it's a volcano !

too old shit...

The Avars were a Mongoloid people but the video portrays them as European- totally false. Also like the Vikings and as taught in Russian Universities, the Avars had no need to wash as the lived outdoors all their lives. The Slavs, the largest group of Indo Europeans bathed each day as they always lived by rivers hunted and grew crops. The Slavs were allies of the Avars and besieged Constantinople in 625 AD. Slavs always fought each other and the Wends pushed the Germans further Westward to the Elbe River. The Sorbs lived on the East side whilst the Saxons were on the West side. The Wends were feared raiders in their long ships with dragon heads and constantly raided the Vikings. Due to their large population Slavs from what is now Belarus invaded the Balkans and took Greece.

If this devolves into Core Samples Im outta here.

that scientists computer monitor doesn't look too scientific

Absolute bullshit. Pasteur’s terrain theory is correct.

Thus is sn interesting line up of events. But I really hate the scaremongering and foreshadowing in the close of the flic. Life is dynamic and we are no longer a regional civilization but a global one. Our resilience against such a disaster ought to be better, SS Covid has shown. So, not everything is doom and gloom.

Hide under Gods wing…history repeats …..

B.S.