Volcanic Eruption Affected Roman Society in 1st Century BCETop of Mind with Julie Rose • Season 1, Episode 1373, Segment 6
Jul 6, 2020 • 15m
Guest: Joseph Manning, Professor of History, Yale University
Here’s a case now of climate scientists helping to rewrite history: close analysis of ice samples from the Arctic suggest that a huge volcanic eruption in Alaska helped to trigger the political and social unrest that led to the fall of the Roman Republic on the other side of the globe two-thousand years ago.