How This Mega Volcano Caused A Deadly Plague That Swept The Roman Empire
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- The catastrophic volcanic eruption of 535 AD, likely Krakatoa, had far-reaching impacts on global climate and human history. This documentary explores how the eruption caused drastic environmental changes, leading to widespread crop failures, famine, and societal upheaval. Through scientific analysis and historical evidence, it connects this climatic catastrophe to the outbreak of the Antonine Plague, demonstrating how a single natural event reshaped civilizations, decimated populations, and set the stage for one of history's deadliest pandemics. Join us on a journey uncovering the interconnectedness of nature's fury and human suffering.
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I love how people with a British accent say "laboratory" it sounds so classy & sinister at the same time.
Good observation!
They are saying it correctly. We americans drop the "o" after the b even though its there in the spelling just like we mess up february as feb-you-ary and library as ly-berry. On the contrary, we've got aluminum correct.😊
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.
Fearmongering
@@noelburke6224 relax😎 not every virus is a dragon, most are more like squirrels with a flute😁
@@volkerkalhoefer3973 😉🤣👍
I so wish there was a documentary on that!
I didn’t realize how far our knowledge of this event had come in 30 years. Wow!
You'd be pleasantly surprised, I'd say.
Two thousand million is the most British way to say 2 billion 😂
😆 👍
haha well in many countries like mine we call it like this in ascending order: "thousand 1 000 -> million 1 000 000 -> milliard -> 1 000 000 000 while billion is 1 000 000 000 000"
So I interpret it as the speaker meant 2 milliards lol
But I don't posses the knowledge what is most correct from a linguistic viewpoint, just know it is confusing to hear billion and must always double check what is actually meant😅😆
@@Tybold63 A bit of a pisser, eh? 😆
@@cboyles84 lol couldn't resist - not really out to annoy just to enlighten that it is kinda debatable what a billion is 😆😆
@@Tybold63 No annoyance at all. Certainly humorous, though 😸
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.
yup-combined with certain types of severe sun activity that strongly disrupts cell phone activity and other waves...😮
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.
This eruption likely caused the migration of Polynesian peoples to New Zealand
🧐mmmaybe they were already there?
It's not particularly likely, considering settlement seems to be from about 1300 or so.
@hoperules8874 No we were uninhabited for a very long time
Now now, don't give ideas to politicians
They already have the ideas, this video is one of them... trying to convince us that nature is to be feared. Everything has been weaponised and its all about fear these days.
Yeah they’ve already perfected the virus in their playbook.
@@samfinley1974 It'll definitely get our attention, this time ;)
@@samfinley19747😅00900
Global warming is the current story.... not global cooling
horses can't eat moldy hay
Krakatoa does NOT lie off the coast of Indonesia, it IS part of Indonesia.
It's part of the coast of indonesia then. Thanks for the correction
@@mcshadow5000 Yes it is one of the Indonesian islands (in between blowing itself up).
How many times has this documentary been recycled under different titles?
Subtle clickbait.
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.
Oh wow. That “super computer” is a throwback!
Bring out your de-e-e-a-a-d!!
Love monty python
I’m not dead yet!
@LightchaserAV, yes, you are!
I think I'm feeling better.
2:10 I mean they very much did witness that 😂. Even wrote about it 😂
I'm wondering if this was on the learning channel back in the late 90's
They were trying to warp our minds back then too.
Back when they used to actually air educational television 😢
Fascinating!
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."
Good insight about how to plague started and spread
I never realized the temperature made such a difference. I just assumed the weather factor was it being too cold for the fleas themselves, not the temperature affecting the bacteria inside the fleas. I've watched a lot of shows about the bubonic plague but I don't recall ever hearing this detail before.
@@phaedrapage4217 You're on the right track. And you know how the media in all it's verious forms loves to twist facts.
when was this first published, 1995? edit: I dont mind, but I think you should be clear about it
It is on the credits at the end of the doco ... ffs. Oh ... and still absolutely relevant.
@@lizsteeds6697 Relevant proof they've been trying to manipulate our minds for decades.
They re uploaded this.
From Wikipedia:
“David Keys, Ken Wohletz, and others have postulated that a violent volcanic eruption, possibly of Krakatoa, in 535 was responsible for the global climate changes of 535-536.[
Drilling projects in Sunda Strait ruled out any possibility that an eruption took place in 535 AD.”
Sounds like the information as presented was disproven.
@@maremacd😂yeah-the internet never lies and world wide evidence of Krakatoa's 535 eruption can be dismissed in one sentence on wikipedia--and WHO did the editing?!? It's been well proven to have happened.
"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.
great video
Just wait! This can and will happen again.
very very interesting guys
Why does a volcanic eruption trigger drought?
Because the ash in the upper atmosphere blocks sunlight. Because of the reduced sunlight the earth cooled. Because of that there was less heat, the evaporation of the oceans was reduced. That meant less moisture in the air the create weather systems that cause rainfall. Less water vapor in the atmosphere means less rainfall on the ground.
@@lynnmartinez5701I was wondering why "would surly block out the sun and shroud the sky... Thus Dryer and dryer."
was the main driving point there. I was thinking that the road to hedouble🏒 is paved with welcome mats of assumptions but that was a conjoined bunch of pop culture and ? Proverbs?
Anyways, TY for reading my mind just then. That was cool.
The Suez Canal wasn't fully constructed until late 1869. How were traders sailing through there in the 6th century?
Start at the section titled precursors. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal
@@ladyflimflam Oooh, interesting!
Sometimes we forget about human resourcefulness 😂😂
Everyone sailed around Africa.
Right
Or money and influence and necessity to cover up or ultimately be eaten. I don't believe the numbers, they are bought and fraudulent IMO.
@@Xaiff
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.
That's the story they're giving us. Do I believe it? Probably not.
Since the Earth was formed there has always been changes in the climate and there always will be. Humans can not stop it.
@@catvonderahe1836we can’t stop it, no one is saying we need to stop all changes from happening, but humans have made those changes happen in an accelerated time frame. We don’t HAVE to make it as accelerated as it currently is… but we are and that’s the problem.
I saw a doco about some Russian researchers/scientists finding anthrax on a defrosting animal/insect in Siberia and there is a passage in the bible I think about pestilence and all manner of nasty stuff being released from the earth
@@SourLemonade57 CO2 is less than 4% of the total atmosphere. Under 2% everything dies.
14:21 almost a poetic justice - greed bring the plague
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?
Don't forget your tin hat to stop the government signals from controling you! And, yeah-those old crazy dudes in the woods don't seem so crazy now at all.😢
……this vid was ORIGINALLY from UK made tv show entitled ‘Catastrophe’………
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!
Their military tech was far better
despiration gives some more strength
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.
I believe that Yellowstone is going to be worse....I just hope that I'm dead before it happens ❤
What about your family? Grandkids and great nieces?
I like how this is continuation of prev vid shame wasn't name as it
Correlation does not necessarily imply causation.
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! 😂
Wondering How they did survive!! Actually It's a big mystery 😁
They certainly bathed. They had public and private bath houses. Plunge pools, saunas. You name it.
@@lindafarnes486 no they didn't have all those things such as private or public pools or bath. We are talking about (barbarians). They were living a long time ago. They were very wild people. What you are saying is like modern life or today's life. Probably you are confused. Watch the movie again or just do some simple research online.
@@GilaBert-sq4hjIt is highly over exaggerated though since the only reports come from the opposing side of the romans, who had a tendency to make their enemies seem a lot less human than they actually were. Thats not to say they weren’t disgusting by todays standards, but there is plenty of evidence showing they showered once a week in lakes or rivers, and combed their hair with bone.
@@GilaBert-sq4hjI just don't have it in me.......
There was a huge hanta virus outbreak In South America about that same time
Wait till they hear about the Toba supervolcano.
Cool story!
Still good stuff...🤔📚🤓
Thanks,
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
I've never seen this, so it's working.
those computers are ancient!
13:32
Alexandria placed far away from the Nile delta?
Not the most accurate of maps...
There is nothing "humble" regarding the flea.
They are quite arrogant tbh
Holy fuck that’s crazy
where was this documentary 5 years ago?
because of the figured interaction suggestiveness for elaborating persistiveness supported by relevance accordingly, nevermind although i would have figured it clearer and more fluently than being contradictive because of insecurity caused by people having made me uncomfortable in stalling ways.
2000 million 😳Hiroshima bombs ,ahh let that sink in a bit.
They really must have gotten to you. Watch again ith less fear and you'll get that they use the words like might, maybe, seems, possibly, NO definitive words.
@SpiritGirlSF daum, you must be bored. It looks like my little statement got to you.
You can't call it the Roman Empire when they didn't even hold Rome anymore.
Byzantine people referred to themselves as Roman
Oooh 1990s CGI woooow
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.
lost the reference-but yes! it was a different mutation of the same pestis.
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?
Lazarus and the rich man
Ha! Yellowstone: "Hold my beer...."
It's not going to happen.
Doooooom!
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. 😎
The sounds are too distracting - I can't bare it, I'm sorry.
An eruption in the 6th Century AD cannot have caused the Antonine Plague, which was in the 2nd Century AD.
How about the Justian plague...???
@8:07
Confused math face*
Don't you mean all cattle, not just cows?
Lol if you want to be technical
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
How come Alexandria being dislodged about 500km to the west on your Africa map 😂🤣😂
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!
This is an old documentary they just reuploaded, I highly doubt they have access to the actual project file to be able to do that.
I hope that virus will not effect the people of Iceland and Italy who live near those 2024 volcanic eruptions.
Um... did you even watch a minute of this video?
@@549RR All of it. The Italians, especially around Naples, are concerned about a supervolcanic eruption. Which could possibly have similar effects which could include the bubonic plague (i.e. temperatures changes)
Are all revelations of bad? No revelations of good happening?
His dates are all askewed.
Old out of date information
Do you think that the eruption is what caused the abandonment of South American civilization or ushered in what would become the dark ages?
There is also a catastrophe documentary that showed that the volcano responsible for the dark ages, including the"Justinian plague" was caused by a super volcanic eruption. This super volcano is located in South America. It's called Illapango. They also posited that it was responsible for the Mayan civilization collapse.
And when this happen again, most snowflakes around the WORLD will not survive
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.
Nope. This is all Bullshit.
Yeah, you got a grand imagination that runs completely counter to the archeology of the Western US.
NO ... Volcanic eruption caused climate change ffs.
Um, you forgot the dragons. All good fantasy stories have dragons. Please revise and resubmit.
@@ladyflimflam PO and change your diapers troll.
This was stolen from another channel
Like this is not their's fault, because they were too greedy no no no, it's a volcano !
2 thousand million Hiroshima bombs? Bullshit.
This is a re-upload.
They're all re-uploads what's your point.
So it isn’t true?
I re-uploaded your mom last night
Okay. You may be right. Idk. I offer that we forgive them. Someone or many someones had to make that decision. Maybe they thought it would help them get more views? I don't think anyone would argue against the quality of the work or the value of their hour long content. If a re-upload helps them at all, I think it's okay, or even better that they do it.
Also, to the person saying they're all uploads... yes, right? Because they were all on BBC tv before I am guessing, yes?
Also, amusingly to me, the information about krakatoa is relayed in such a manner that it is a surprise somehow that all the business of a whole darkened Earth is the responsibility of such a notorious volcano as to be referenced by the B52s, almost as if it was an adjective, not a noun. Of course it was krakatoa. If we, at least in America, aren't talking about Pompei specificallyfor it's archeological significance, or St Helens, because that just doesn' thappen here, sort of feeling of surpirise and devastation about it, well what other volcano are we going to talk about? Yes, okay, rhe ring of fire. But all those islands aren't major population centers, and world famous technologically innovative and industrial centers, necessarily, but small land masses characteizef by volcanic upheaval that which i.pact may be limited to a very small and culturally isolated set of people. Of course we are talking about krakatoa and only because it was so enormous and devasting and so far reaching in it's devastation. What else are we going to talk about? Vesuvious? Idk. I think that one is only interesting because, idk, elevation and it's proximation to other European destinations now and forever ago? But whatever research they have to offer in their studies as evidence pinning it all on kakatoa is noteworthy and I want to know, even if I was sure it was krakatoa well before we got there in section one of all this. I think they do an oustanding job a dramatizing it, and somehow sharper couched in all the even keel emotionless presentation, except its British, so the emotion is there, but it's subtle. I love it!
@@britaeirikr8609volcanos do stuff.
Absolute bullshit. Pasteur’s terrain theory is correct.
If this devolves into Core Samples Im outta here.
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.
that scientists computer monitor doesn't look too scientific
That’s because the original program aired in the 1990’s.
Yeah, it's vintage. Damn near antique.
Still true ffs ... science still good.
Early manipulation meant to frighten us.
The computer is a piece of technology. It is not scientific even if it is used for scientific purposes
too old shit...
Moron. Still true and still relevant.
Hide under Gods wing…history repeats …..
B.S.