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To: SunkenCiv

IMO most if not all empires fell and migrations out of Africa were due to climate changes that exacerbated conditions such as lack of plant food and game; increased pestilence and disease.


2 posted on 12/05/2008 6:48:40 PM PST by boxer21
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To: boxer21
"....due to climate changes....."

Salting the fields and cutting all the trees didn't help (CO2 reduction).

3 posted on 12/05/2008 6:58:15 PM PST by Paladin2 (No, pundits strongly believe that the proper solution is more dilution.)
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To: boxer21

The Black Plague did a lot to reduce productive populations also


14 posted on 12/06/2008 4:19:29 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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