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What culture first discovered tree rings? |
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| What scientist first discovered the relationship between tree rings and climate? |
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| Wooden forts built over water |
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| How may the climate have influenced the building of crannogs? |
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| Forced people to build on more marginal areas |
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| After the sack of Rome by the Huns and Goths, where was the new capitol built? |
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| According to John of Ephesus, how many months was the sun darkened? |
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| In 540, what fell like snow in China? |
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| According to climatologists, what 3 agents can create "dust veils"? |
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| If the A.D. 535 event was caused by an asteroid, how large was the asteroid? |
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| Since no large impact crater has been found, what alternative impact theory has been suggested? |
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| What is a possible association between King Arthur and the A.D. 535 event? |
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| He died before, stuff falls from sky, odd |
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| What agent of climate change is suggested by the sulfuric acid spike in the ice sheets? |
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| If the dust from an eruption is to cover the earth, where must the volcano be located? |
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| What do the Chinese record in A.D. 535 that suggests a volcanic eruption? |
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| Loud bang from SW - no lightning; mysterious |
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What is the world's most notorious volcano and where is it located? |
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| How many people were killed by the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa? |
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| Why will carbon-14 samples be unavailable if a volcano is particularly active? |
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| Plants wouldn't get established |
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| How did the Tambora eruption of 1815 impact weather in New England? |
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| Frost every month in summer |
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| When was the last great subsistence crisis? |
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| What plague broke out across the Mediterrean in A.D. 542? |
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| What causes fleas to start spreading the plague to humans? |
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| Never satisfy hunger, jump on anything for blood |
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| What climate conditions favor the spread of the plague? |
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| Where did the Justinian Plague probably originate? |
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| What type of trade probably spread the plague to Europe? |
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| Name 2 ways that the plague impacted the Roman legions. |
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| 1 - kill the recruits; 2 - less money |
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| What military edge did the Avars have? |
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| What climate change finally allowed the Turks to defeat the Avars? |
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| Why were the Turk's cattle better able to adapt to this climate change, than the Avars' horses? |
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| Greater efficiency to digest; can eat a variety of vegetation |
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| Where did the displaced Avars now turn their attention? |
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| In addition to Rome, what American city collapses as a result of the A.D. 535 Event? |
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| According to Rebecca Storey, what age group was most impacted by this drougt? |
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| How did the people of this city finally respond to this 30 year drought? |
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| Rose up against the leader; set fire to the roof |
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| What happened to Britain in A.D. 547? |
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| What allowed the Anglo-Saxons to move westward across Britain during this time period? |
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| What new religion rose in the 6th century? |
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| What brought the downfall of teh ancient Yemen Empire and the migration to Medina and Mecca? |
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| Drought; storms weakened dam |
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Name 2 modern supervolcanoes |
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