Climate, or What Rules the Fate of Civilizations
13 hrs. 22 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Alexander Nikonov
Author
Alexander Nikonov
Narrator
Filipp Matveev-Vitovsky
Narrator
Filipp Matveev-Vitovsky
Description
Learn everything about the influence of climate: facts and myths.
We rarely have to think about how climate affects the course of history. What gave rise to the birth of three great ancient civilizations—the Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Indus-Harappan? How did a drop in the global average temperature by just half a degree make everyone talk about global warming, glaciers melting, and the worldwide flood?
And did you know that the Time of Troubles—before it, Boris Godunov’s “unfortunate rule”—was caused by a sharp climate jump: catastrophic cooling. According to contemporary accounts, on July 28, 1601, “in Moscow, in the middle of summer, snow fell, and frost was severe; they rode in sleds.” And what can we say if the temperature in the past century was much lower than it is now: Dostoevsky’s characters walked in coats in summer.
In fact, our entire civilization is a product of a brief period of “thaw.” Four hundred years before Ovid, even in Rome, neither grapes nor olives were ripening. One of the most difficult scientific tasks—tracing the impact of climate on human history—is solved by the author in an amazingly engaging way! This investigation is packed with facts, nonstandard examples, and unexpected evidence that proves: the “climate kitchen” is perhaps one of the hardest-to-explain processes humanity has ever encountered.
We rarely have to think about how climate affects the course of history. What gave rise to the birth of three great ancient civilizations—the Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Indus-Harappan? How did a drop in the global average temperature by just half a degree make everyone talk about global warming, glaciers melting, and the worldwide flood?
And did you know that the Time of Troubles—before it, Boris Godunov’s “unfortunate rule”—was caused by a sharp climate jump: catastrophic cooling. According to contemporary accounts, on July 28, 1601, “in Moscow, in the middle of summer, snow fell, and frost was severe; they rode in sleds.” And what can we say if the temperature in the past century was much lower than it is now: Dostoevsky’s characters walked in coats in summer.
In fact, our entire civilization is a product of a brief period of “thaw.” Four hundred years before Ovid, even in Rome, neither grapes nor olives were ripening. One of the most difficult scientific tasks—tracing the impact of climate on human history—is solved by the author in an amazingly engaging way! This investigation is packed with facts, nonstandard examples, and unexpected evidence that proves: the “climate kitchen” is perhaps one of the hardest-to-explain processes humanity has ever encountered.
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