Ancient Civilisations Affected by Climate Change

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  • Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2024

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  • @AidanKedzierski
    @AidanKedzierski 2 года назад +35

    I’m an environmental engineering major, and a few years ago a visiting professor from UPenn did a presentation about research he’s doing about Mayans. I don’t remember his name but I do remember what he talked about. During the drought you talked about, Mayans would have had to depend more heavily on groundwater wells. These wells were full of fossil water, which is water that has been in the ground long enough to have absorbed materials from the surrounding rock. This included arsenic. The whole study happened because some paint on a bit of pottery from that era of the Mayans had high arsenic levels. Hoarding of the poisoned water by higher caste members of society could have lead to them being poisoned and to societal destabilization and collapse. At the time of the talk he hadn’t published his research yet, but I hope he has by now.

  • @mollywithak1697
    @mollywithak1697 2 года назад +57

    I’m taking a class on this exact topic atm called the Archaeology of Environmental Change, we got to look at all of those examples from different angles and try to analyze it given the evidence. SUPER interesting stuff.

    • @1984isnotamanual
      @1984isnotamanual 2 года назад

      That's so cool! What are you getting a degree in, if I may ask?

    • @latronqui
      @latronqui 2 года назад

      What are you studying?

    • @1984isnotamanual
      @1984isnotamanual 2 года назад

      Is that for molly or me?

  • @igorlins8194
    @igorlins8194 2 года назад +28

    This subject is fascinating. When studying history, we focus on human actions, but the truth is that many human actions are caused because of environmental changes. Thanks to point it out!

  • @TheMaYsSA2
    @TheMaYsSA2 2 года назад +1

    I'm curently writing my Master's dissertation on climate change's effect on migration flows and so many ancient migration events were caused by ancient climate change events. It's such a facinating topic

  • @1984isnotamanual
    @1984isnotamanual 2 года назад +16

    I really admire the archeologists who put on the diving suit and search the coasts for signs of human culture. Who knows much culture has been erased simply because humans like to live next to water and water levels have risen. Societies were so fragile back then. One bad harvest or hunting season, one particularly harsh winter, and it could be all over. Such a foreign fear to a 21st century human living in Northern California.
    I had no idea about that theory about the vikings in greenland. Thanks for the knowledge!

    • @TheIrishMugFug
      @TheIrishMugFug 2 года назад

      Fragile back then? They still are fragile. All it takes is a couple powerful elite in he government to shut down the worlds economies

    • @ducthman4737
      @ducthman4737 2 года назад

      Indeed sea level during the Holocene has risen by 120 metres.

  • @tomdotcom0520
    @tomdotcom0520 2 года назад +1

    Just awesome! Keep doing what you're doing! It helps me pass my boring ass nights working in a mental hospital!

  • @MadDogOfist
    @MadDogOfist 2 года назад +9

    Thanks Cinzia. This was fun, I didn't know about the last one. Obviously was expecting something on the Late Bronze Age Collapse - too obvious? too many uncertainties?
    Also: CURVE BALL! Egypt used to be a green and fertile land, watered by monsoon rains, before a regular oscillation in the rotational angle of the Earth no longer fed them. The change happened around 5,500 years ago, the Sahara turning from a lush green garden to a dessert over the matter of a few short years. The hitch being: The Old Kingdom didn't collapse. Egypt continued its rise as a regional power. In fact, this calamity roughly coincided with the building of the Pyramids.

  • @AncientAmericas
    @AncientAmericas 2 года назад +20

    I enjoy your work so much and it pains me to nitpick but I feel compelled to point out that the Maya never had an empire. The classic Maya were made up of different city states similar to Classical Greece or the Renaissance Italy. Otherwise, very well done! Also loved your enthusiasm for the Ancestral Pueblo. They are a fascinating people and culture.

    • @CinziaDuBois
      @CinziaDuBois  2 года назад +13

      No, you're right. That was just me totally misspeaking, I can only apologise. I don't know why I used that word.

    • @AncientAmericas
      @AncientAmericas 2 года назад +6

      @@CinziaDuBois Don't worry, I've made my fair share of mistakes too. Keep up the great work!

  • @kopratic
    @kopratic 2 года назад +26

    I would love to see a video about places that have fallen underwater!
    Also, I don't know if this type of thing is in your wheelhouse, but would you ever consider doing a video discussing the Voynich Manuscript?

    • @CinziaDuBois
      @CinziaDuBois  2 года назад +1

      I haven’t researched much about it but I’m super interested in the VM. Definitely get around to it!

    • @theq6797
      @theq6797 2 года назад

      I've read fragments some time ago. Fun stuff although slightly outdated form of writing, but if you enjoy old (as if pre-XIX century) fiction then maybe you should also read it. There is almost no story involved, so if you want story you won't get it. It is more like coursebook about alternate reality (some would rather call it "hell").
      I would read it all if I have full text and time.

    • @kopratic
      @kopratic 2 года назад +1

      @@theq6797 I think you must be getting this mixed up with something else. The Voynich Manuscript is a currently indecipherable text that carbon dating puts to around c. early 15th century.

  • @CinziaDuBois
    @CinziaDuBois  2 года назад +15

    🌿 Offset your carbon footprint on Wren: www.wren.co/start/ladyofthelibrary. The first 100 people who sign up will have 10 extra trees planted in their name!
    DISCLAIMER
    This video was produced by a random student on the internet who loves reading, especially about ancient history and classics. The purpose of my videos is to make classics and ancient history interesting and accessible to everyone. It is important to highlight that I am not a professional or qualified educator, “expert”, historian or classicist. However, I ensure that all the information I use in my video scripts has been collated from numerous credible sources, which I will link in the description box if accessible online. I always work my hardest to deliver thoroughly researched and reliable information in my videos, but please always conduct additional, independent research to formulate a thorough understanding of any topic discussed. Additionally, I am dyslexic, and I will mispronounce words throughout this video, sometimes without realising it. This is not ill-intended or stemming from willful ignorance, and I do make the effort to research how to pronounce words before I start filming, but I often misread my phonetic spelling. In light of this, please do not rely on my video for an authoritative or reliable source of how to pronounce certain words.

    • @stellviahohenheim
      @stellviahohenheim 2 года назад

      Why are you speaking like that Theranos woman

    • @theq6797
      @theq6797 2 года назад

      But I like my footprints. I also like footprints of my ancestors.

    • @ducthman4737
      @ducthman4737 2 года назад

      The curious thing is that the Earth is currently in an ice age. Looking at the last 200 Ma, the recent 3 Ma are the coldest and most unstable, especially the long cold spells between the warmer and short interglacial moments. The only thing wrong is that it is too cold and CO2 is dangerously low.

    • @miglek9613
      @miglek9613 2 года назад

      @@stellviahohenheim she's mentioned she has some sort of health problem that affects her vocal chords, I think it's also related to her near constant laringitis

  • @princekrazie
    @princekrazie 2 года назад +6

    Ive been so obsessed with Greek Mythology lately.... looking forward to more Greek Mythology content.

  • @janicegagnon2294
    @janicegagnon2294 2 года назад +8

    What an interesting topic, it is truly fascinating what we are able to learn from the past with new technology. Thank you for bringing this topic to us.

  • @winterburden
    @winterburden 2 года назад +4

    Thanks for this fascinating discussion Cinzia! 🙆‍♀️

  • @odysodys1098
    @odysodys1098 2 года назад +4

    You are a very effective teacher. For at least the last 2.5-million years (maybe as long as 40-million years) Earth has been going through cyclic ice-ages pretty much like clockwork -- c. 100,000-years of glaciiation punctuated by c. 10,000-years of warmer temperatures. The single greatest biosphere disaster (traumatic climate change due probably to cometary impact) in the last 100,000-years -- the Younger Dryas event -- occured c. 10,950 BC. That would be before the advanced civilations you are addressing, of course, except for the discovery of advanced astronomical knowledge (2017 paper) at the extensive Gobekli Tepe megalithic site that dates to at least 9300 BC. Lots of mysteries; but our next major climate challange will probabhly be cold again.

  • @robincole1140
    @robincole1140 2 года назад +7

    Do you have a video on the Bronze Age collapse? A tricky subject with sparse written sources I'm aware, but I would be interested to hear your thoughts.

    • @CinziaDuBois
      @CinziaDuBois  2 года назад +7

      No I don't! I can cover that (:

    • @HermesSonofZeus
      @HermesSonofZeus 2 года назад

      ​@@CinziaDuBois There's localized evidence for some climate change (the 3.2 ka BP event) coming from the Levant and Cyprus at the end of the Late Bronze Age. See Kaniewski et al. 2013 Environmental Roots of the Late Bronze Age Crisis, available online.

  • @HopeEdge1997
    @HopeEdge1997 2 года назад +1

    I'd definitely love a video on why the Vikings vanished! References to TV shows/books Vikings and The Last Kingdom would be great

  • @genera1013
    @genera1013 2 года назад

    5:00
    Yes please! I love learning about the Norse!

  • @alexandrialeonora6542
    @alexandrialeonora6542 2 года назад +1

    This was so interesting, and I'd love to see a second video on the subject! Thanks so much for your hard work! :D

    • @CinziaDuBois
      @CinziaDuBois  2 года назад +1

      Thank you so much for your support ♥️

  • @Angeredbobbin
    @Angeredbobbin 2 года назад +1

    I would love to hear more about the end of civilizations and also those that are under water, or maybe resurfaced later. I think it’d be a really interesting thing to hear about.

  • @lindanelson6615
    @lindanelson6615 2 года назад

    Your research is impeccable. I am amazed at the breadth of your knowledge.

  • @jenniferburgess7668
    @jenniferburgess7668 2 года назад

    I love this so much! All of your videos are very well done !

  • @ellysium4629
    @ellysium4629 2 года назад

    Very interesting topic, I would love to see more about this. It's always so nice to see your videos pop up in my notifications

  • @therapturedmichelle
    @therapturedmichelle 2 года назад

    I like these simple history videos!! Thank you!!!!!

  • @Swell_Simps_United
    @Swell_Simps_United 2 года назад +3

    Very controversial take on Atlantis! But thanks for this cool video 🥺

    • @CinziaDuBois
      @CinziaDuBois  2 года назад +3

      Controversial? When was reality controversial XD

  • @michaelake9814
    @michaelake9814 2 года назад

    Thank you for this discussion! I hope you are doing well and taking care of yourself!

  • @laurenganim9092
    @laurenganim9092 Год назад

    Yes please let’s talk about the real civilizations underwater! 🌊🌊🌊🌊

  • @RU81111
    @RU81111 2 года назад +1

    This is my niche, great vid!
    Good vibes to you!

    • @CinziaDuBois
      @CinziaDuBois  2 года назад +2

      I appreciate it, thank you for watching

  • @justhereforcats9183
    @justhereforcats9183 2 года назад +1

    Great topic, I watch the fall of civilizations channel and in many episodes climate plays a big role in the downfall of a society.

  • @Ulyssestnt
    @Ulyssestnt 2 года назад +2

    Whenever this topic gets broached it reminds me how short a human lifespan is in the geological sense.

  • @mushymass9716
    @mushymass9716 2 года назад

    How could anyone *not* want to hear more about underwater civs?? Extremely fucking cool

  • @nopenope3131
    @nopenope3131 2 года назад

    Yes! Civilians under water, and Norsemen...I would love more about both!!! ☺️

  • @RU81111
    @RU81111 2 года назад +2

    Please talk about the underwater Civilizations, that would be incredible

  • @lizjolly5454
    @lizjolly5454 2 года назад

    Fascinating essay. Thankyou

  • @kmac7302
    @kmac7302 2 года назад

    This was fascinating! Thank you for such a well presented video!

  • @Thrifty_Mom
    @Thrifty_Mom 2 года назад

    The underwater civilisations would be interesting, along with how atlantis is a metaphor. I know it isn't real, but I've not heard that its a metaphor.
    This was so interesting

  • @jaymevosburgh3660
    @jaymevosburgh3660 2 года назад +1

    I adore your videos! ❤ such a great topic, wish it was discussed more (while leaving out mythical places like Atlantis & Mu).
    I am sure it will become a more serious topic at some point soon ;)
    Keep spreading that beautiful knowledge!!!

  • @evanames5940
    @evanames5940 2 года назад

    Another great video. Thanks

  • @andy2950
    @andy2950 2 года назад

    Excellent video. Thank you 😊 💓
    Good to see you in a better place 🙏 👍

    • @CinziaDuBois
      @CinziaDuBois  2 года назад +1

      Thank you... but I'm afraid this video was filmed but moment before my last XD I'm not doing great, but I appreciate your support x

    • @andy2950
      @andy2950 2 года назад

      @Lady of the Library ✌️❤️🤞I have some experience of your pain myself. If you need a shoulder or ear I'm here 😳

  • @shakodeycarson9253
    @shakodeycarson9253 2 года назад +1

    New to your channel and really enjoying the content!

    • @CinziaDuBois
      @CinziaDuBois  2 года назад +1

      Thank you, it's lovely to meet you and welcome

  • @AresGodofWargames
    @AresGodofWargames 2 года назад +1

    Thanks for the video! Please do the one of the norsemen dissapearance.

  • @ilanpi
    @ilanpi Год назад

    I respectfully suggest you do a video on the invention of the Anno Domini calendar count by Dionysius Exiguus and why you have cancelled this historical fact by using C.E. instead of A.D.

  • @kangaroocaliphate1577
    @kangaroocaliphate1577 2 года назад

    I vaguely remember reading somewhere of a sort of short cooling period after the napoleonic wars.

  • @roncarp
    @roncarp 2 месяца назад

    Amazing presentation

  • @IzlyeSellos
    @IzlyeSellos 2 года назад

    Thank you for this lovely video

  • @RosesRawReality
    @RosesRawReality 2 года назад

    Please cover civilizations under water!

  • @TheBloodyWizard2949
    @TheBloodyWizard2949 2 года назад

    I'd love to hear about these sunken civilizations, please.

  • @loro363
    @loro363 2 года назад

    Very good topic! Enjoy the content!! So wonderful to see your lovely face again!

  • @e911disp
    @e911disp 2 года назад +1

    Love your channel...keep plugging away

  • @carissachristy9364
    @carissachristy9364 2 года назад

    You are so interesting! U inspire me with every video

  • @ConradsStudio
    @ConradsStudio 2 года назад

    Funny thing about the Atlantis myth is that people who believe in it disregard the actual point of Plato's story: that how awesome idealized republics are as demonstrated by the mighty ancient Athenian civilization that defeated Atlantis. It's like reading a Fantastic Four comic and thinking the FF are clearly fictional, but Doctor Doom must be totally real!

  • @nickapvikes
    @nickapvikes 2 года назад

    Not about ancient history, but maybe the most interesting book I’ve read related to climate change/disaster and its relationship to society (+ dystopian/science fiction, as a bonus) I’ve read is ‘Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster’ by Mike Davis. Highly recommended

  • @barrythatcher9349
    @barrythatcher9349 2 года назад

    Hi Lady of the Library can you do a video on the Vikings of Greenland and they're disappearance in the mid-medieval period. Also Eric the Red and St Brendan's voyages to what was known as Vineland (North America).

  • @BeanDIProductions
    @BeanDIProductions 2 года назад

    i love your videos soooo much

  • @princekrazie
    @princekrazie 2 года назад

    Ive been so obsessed with Greek mythology lately....

  • @DogWalkerBill
    @DogWalkerBill 2 года назад

    Those Indonesian volcanoes have played havoc with human/hominid evolution & history!

  • @numberedpages
    @numberedpages 2 года назад

    Fascinating topic! Can you recommend any books about this?

  • @Jessica-us3gh
    @Jessica-us3gh 2 года назад

    Please please please do a reaction or even a debate with Jahannah James on Atlantis. I would love to hear your take on her theories.

  • @iakguui976
    @iakguui976 2 года назад

    Pls could you suggest some Books concerning civilisations !!

  • @veronicamaria2730
    @veronicamaria2730 2 года назад

    Would love to hear more about now submerged civilizations. But - I don't think I can let go of Atlantis. . . . 😢

  • @TheIrishMugFug
    @TheIrishMugFug 2 года назад +1

    4:30 here I am trying to lower my carbonfootprint, while a billion indian people dump 10lbs each of waste into the Ganges daily

  • @maxwell102
    @maxwell102 2 года назад

    Great video! I'm a PhD candidate doing research at Chaco Canyon and appreciate your emphasis on the ingenuity and grit of the Ancestral Pueblo people enduring harsh climatic conditions. I also appreciate you noting there are always a range of factors influencing cultural change. Ancestral Pueblo people migrated out of the Four Corners region in the 1200s CE, due to deteriorating climatic conditions, combined with a rise in social unrest and violence brought on by the unraveling of social safety nets under the shared ideology of Chaco. Finally thank you for not describing the Ancestral Pueblo culture as "collapsing". Migration is just another adaptation to changing social and environmental conditions and their culture lives on in descendant Pueblo communities. Keep up the great work!

  • @peterm.eggers520
    @peterm.eggers520 2 года назад

    What makes you think that carbon (atmospheric CO2) has a negative impact on the environment or civilization?

  • @susanschaffner4422
    @susanschaffner4422 2 года назад

    I found no information that the 536 volcano was in Iceland.

    • @CinziaDuBois
      @CinziaDuBois  2 года назад

      www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120130131509.htm

  • @americanmann123
    @americanmann123 2 года назад +1

    My goodness your accent 🥰🥰🥰

  • @chrisbird4913
    @chrisbird4913 Год назад

    The context tag is entirely wrong, the earth has always had a shifting climate pre and post human existence. Many creatures affect their environment, and neither is this positive or negative, the anti-human environmentalist movement overlooks solar shifts, flares and natural cycles that shifts climate that has little to do with human action. The world is bigger than us, and will adapt as it always has, just on a timescale almost impossible to track.

  • @leesparkles9518
    @leesparkles9518 2 года назад

    Okay before I get pedantic, I just want to say this was a great video! I just really get irked by the term "civilization". The term has been used to imply only peoples who built permanently settlements, especially with stone masonry, were somehow more "advanced" or "civilized" than cultures who don't, which is eurocentric nonsense. I'm glad you mentioned it in the video, but I think it should always be emphasized that the "collapse" of cities does not mean all of the people died out! The Pueblo people and Mayan people are still around today! The acient people would leave the cities to create smaller towns where they could find water. Also, with theories about (pre-industrial revolution) anthropogenic climate change in the Americas, there can be some racism tied into how it's framed by scientists/archaeologists/historians. The people of Rapa Nui (easter island) have had to combat the "hypothesis" an old-timey anthropologist created that said the complete deforestation of the island was caused by rival chiefs creating the famous Moai statues inland and then using cut logs to roll them to the coastline. There's literal no way archaeology could prove or disprove this nonsense. But the Chilean government loves it because they can continue to say the indigenous people cannot be trusted to "properly care for the island's environment", but then use the rights to the water around the island to drill for oil.

  • @procambarusclarkii
    @procambarusclarkii 2 года назад

    "Atlantis never existed."
    You should debate Johanna James at the Funny Olde World channel.

  • @sanderella1642
    @sanderella1642 2 года назад

    ❤️❤️

  • @cubablue602
    @cubablue602 2 года назад

    HaHa! You have a YT context marker. Our knowledgeable overlords are determined to insist that 'climate change' is ONLY inherent with "human activities". As for the Medieval Warm Period there are literally HUNDREDS of peer reviewed papers that point to it's existence, severity and extent across the globe. A couple of papers disputing that are outliers to say the very least. Also with the Little Ice Age, it's FAR more complicated than a direct and sole attribution to volcanism but anyway, this is not about the intricacies of one of the most complex systems 'known' to science. Climate and civilisations are INTRICALLY linked. Good video.

    • @robo5013
      @robo5013 2 года назад

      What? Climate change has happened all throughout history and isn't man made and modern? Civilizations collapsed because of it and it wasn't because of SUV's and cow farts? Who knew? Only educated people!😉

  • @JohnMiller-zr8pl
    @JohnMiller-zr8pl 2 года назад

    👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @DogWalkerBill
    @DogWalkerBill 2 года назад

    Interesting, the the Mayan civilization reached it's peak between 800 CE and 900 CD and declined, at least in part, due to climate change. AND the Vikings migrated to Greenland, during the Medieval Warm period about 900 CE ro 1000 CE. Hmmmm. La Nina does't last a whole century! There is an El Nino - La Nina cycle that occurs over several years. La Nina is also associated with more frequent & more violent hurricanes in the North Atlantic. (Cooler waters in the Atlantic triggers more "wind sheer" e.g. turbulence, leading to bigger & more violent hurricanes. Trust me, I studied this for w decade.)

  • @Wedneswere
    @Wedneswere Год назад

    If Atlantis isn't real, then where do crystals come from?

  • @samventi8160
    @samventi8160 2 года назад

    humans can survive a lot of inequality but when the basic human needs (food,water,shelter) are threatened that is when revolution happens and maybe civilization collapse. I tend to view climate change as the straw that breaks the camel's back

  • @christophervance1165
    @christophervance1165 2 года назад

    Holy shit the ministry of truth put a disclaimer at the top of this video. 🤣🤣🤣

  • @klinischbrot
    @klinischbrot 2 года назад +1

    I really like your content but as for your choice of sponsor.. uhm.. this wren thing is in the least a modern version of an "Letter of indulgence" if not even a scam(who tests/reports on the trees and the wages payed for planting them).
    Pay - sin removed - feel less guilty - keep on going - pay - aso aso. If everybody was able to afford this and would sign up - who would plant our trees? What if everybody actually changed their habits? Latter sounds a lot more promising to me...
    I see that you need to pay the bills but still... doesn't feel like your cup of tea though.
    Keep it up!
    Regards from Germany

    • @CinziaDuBois
      @CinziaDuBois  2 года назад +1

      Thank you for your feedback! (:

  • @halakahiki2
    @halakahiki2 2 года назад

    I just discovered your channel, and you remind me how incredibly attractive an intelligent and learned woman is. (The posh accent probably helps 😃)

  • @ericb4127
    @ericb4127 2 года назад

    Atlantis doesn't exist? Young lady I think it's time for you to watch start watching the excellent documentary series called Stargate SG-1. ;)

  • @carlodefalco7930
    @carlodefalco7930 2 года назад

    Can you stop waving your hands around..
    It doesn’t look natural..
    You’re not of the culture that naturally moves their hands around when talking ..,
    It looks fake , like your acting and detracts from your message