Learn all about the impact of climate: facts and myths.

We rarely have to think about the fact that climate affects the course of history. What was the birth of the three great civilizations of antiquity - Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Indo-Harrapan? How did the average global temperature drop of only half a degree make everyone talk about global warming, melting glaciers, the global flood?

Did you know that the Time of Troubles, and before it the “happy reign” of Boris Godunov, gave rise to a sharp jump in climate - catastrophic cold. According to contemporaries, on July 28, 1601, “great snow fell in Moscow in the middle of the summer and it was frosty, they rode in a sleigh.” And what can I say if the temperature in the last century was much lower than now: Dostoevsky's characters wore coats in the summer.

In fact, our entire civilization is the product of a short period of "thaw". 400 years before Ovid, even in Rome, neither grapes nor olives ripened. One of the most difficult scientific tasks - to trace the impact of climate on the history of mankind - is solved by the author in a surprisingly exciting way! This is an investigation with a bunch of facts, non-standard examples and unexpected evidence confirming that climate cuisine is perhaps one of the most difficult to explain processes that mankind is familiar with.

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© Nikonov A.P. ., 2021

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