The Volcanic Winter Of 536 AD Explained | Catastrophe

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  • Researchers have now discovered that in 535 and 536 AD, a climatic cataclysm wreaked havoc on the world. Could a violent volcanic eruption of Krakatoa have caused two years of darkness, famine, drought and disease? In this second and final episode, we ponder whether this really was the worst time to be alive and learn how the catastrophe shaped the world as we know it.
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  • @ChronicleMedieval
    @ChronicleMedieval  2 ปีที่แล้ว +165

    It's like Netflix for history... 📺 Sign up to History Hit, the world's best history documentary service and get 50% off using the code 'CHRONICLE' 👉 bit.ly/3iVCZNl

    • @lyas6150
      @lyas6150 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      🥏 Indeed it came from Ethiopia whom the King was ruling over it to yemen went one day with his army and his Elephants to destroy the Kaaba of Mekah. The Coran describes how God destroy this king and his army by a rain of stones thrown over them by huge Ababel birds.
      👝 Read the Elephant' Chapter in the Quran !
      🥏🥏🥏 I wonder how (or why) did you miss with the event that took place in 535 ad in Arabia when the king Abraha came with a huge military and elephants to destroy the Kaaba of Mekah !?
      This event is in the Quran.
      There's a chapter consecrated to that event that have been descended from God in the Quran.
      The Chapter is callet The Elephant Surat. It detailed exactly what happened and the reasons that caused the event.
      535 ad was the year the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his household) was born. A second event occured also after the first one known by Rain of Stone, it was the night the Prophete was born a huge lights in the sky enlightened the earth from Arabia to Syria until Persia ! The book of Persia King recorded it and records have been found in Syria as well.
      👝👝👝 You should also ask about the world wide event or bloody rain that took place from Irak few decades after that of 535 ad. For this you should go to Irak pricesly in Karbalaa. And this event is recorded in the Great Britain Museum. I've read it my self in the GB Musuem on line❗

    • @mik823
      @mik823 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Are you going to reference your research data?? How can I take your perspective seriously if you don't publish your research data?

    • @LechLecha893
      @LechLecha893 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@mik823 he did. Chapter and verse. Qu’ran, elephant story. It’s up to everyone else to test his cite. & I’m sure if you bothered, even with Questia, you could find articles ripping the story to shreds or shoring it up.

    • @mik823
      @mik823 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@LechLecha893 that's all good but he needs to list his research data for all his claims and not just mention some, for example his videos on the Vikings and Slavs are complete rubbish and no references s at all and that's my main gripe with this guy. I don't have much interest in his other videos. I post these comments to keep on his case and hold him accountable. TH-cam is full of wanna be historians who literally plagiarize each other's content word for word without doing their own research to corroborate the data. information before they make videos

    • @endtimeslips4660
      @endtimeslips4660 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      BE TRUTHFULLY and BE HONEST.
      what do you think make it become the worst time for man to live?
      because it was PAPACY about reign their power. Clovis war is the beginning of all saint Persecution. a beast speak in Daniel perform their dancing. they drunk with Saint Blood and torture them by order of the antichrist "POPE"

  • @edgregory1
    @edgregory1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3308

    History really puts our existence into perspective. So many lives cut brutally short. Makes my problems seem bearable.

    • @alexclo5901
      @alexclo5901 2 ปีที่แล้ว +200

      I like to remind myself even though my job is akin to wage slavery, I didn't have to build the pyramids

    • @BeanieThe13th
      @BeanieThe13th 2 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Yes, I offten try to remind myself that things can always be much worse.

    • @michellejackson1096
      @michellejackson1096 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Ok

    • @ACryin_Shame
      @ACryin_Shame 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Ha ha. Needing a pick me up about today's world brought me here. 'The worst year to be alive' yep exactly what I am looking for

    • @norajake3790
      @norajake3790 2 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      It also validates our anxieties because we genetically come from these survivors

  • @sublime090909
    @sublime090909 ปีที่แล้ว +459

    Props to the cameraman for capturing all this footage during such a horrible year.

    • @kilderok
      @kilderok ปีที่แล้ว +26

      So good of us to invent the camera before the useless cotton gin. Surely the best of all time

    • @stephanieguile9072
      @stephanieguile9072 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      HA HA HA!!!!😂🤣 Good one!! Luv it!!

    • @brucematzen4678
      @brucematzen4678 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Seriously??? A camera in 536 c. e. Amazing.😢

    • @stephanieguile9072
      @stephanieguile9072 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@brucematzen4678 They were smarter than we thought!!!!🤣

    • @karencristobal4999
      @karencristobal4999 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Well done

  • @JeantheSecond
    @JeantheSecond 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2509

    All of this must have scared the bejesus out of the people of the time. Dimming sun, drought, plague. It must have seemed the literal end of the world.

    • @aspenrebel
      @aspenrebel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      Yes, It was really bad in Britain, that was the time of King Arthur.

    • @GT380man
      @GT380man 2 ปีที่แล้ว +135

      For many millions of people, it was the end. I recall reading estimates of population loss in Europe, which was a third. Nothing like this has ever happened before.

    • @sancho8521
      @sancho8521 2 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      @@GT380man ...30% also in the 14th century during the Bubonic Plague. This book I read said a third of Europe died. "Bring out your dead!" Monty Python

    • @GottaWannaDance
      @GottaWannaDance 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@GT380man
      There was also the great flood; this was the one Noah was building a big boat for. This was the same one to put all the animals of the world in. Add to that the food for every animal, bird, insect, not to mention some humans who weren't related so as to repopulate the planet.

    • @jrchickenbone
      @jrchickenbone 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      now imagine if everyone had access to the internet and a self entitled opinion lol, i bet the churches were booming though

  • @TalkingHands308
    @TalkingHands308 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2620

    Man, I miss when channels on tv like History or Discovery Channel would have documentaries like this one...

    • @Jewelstravel
      @Jewelstravel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Right?! Miss those days

    • @enriquegarza3127
      @enriquegarza3127 2 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Me too. Mail Call, Man Moment Machine, Tales of the Gun, Aftermath: Population Zero. They set the foundation for my love of learning. And who can forget the old National Geographic theme :)

    • @55robinwood
      @55robinwood 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yep. Now the history channel.8s stupid.

    • @susieschilling4009
      @susieschilling4009 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      I got rid of cable over a decade ago. Complete rip off to say the very least.

    • @TalkingHands308
      @TalkingHands308 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      @@enriquegarza3127 Right? Even if they weren't 100% accurate sometimes, it at least sparks interest and sets that mood of learning new things. Now-a-days the only documentaries there are have some agenda to push and it's annoying.

  • @ItIsJustJudy
    @ItIsJustJudy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +992

    I am always amazed at what our ancestors survived.

    • @EricSepulveda
      @EricSepulveda 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I love my pets too. ♥️

    • @DinoCism
      @DinoCism 2 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      I'm horrified at what our descendants will have to survive...

    • @scottshoe842
      @scottshoe842 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      And now boys are girls.

    • @robertbiolsi9815
      @robertbiolsi9815 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Most didn't

    • @deeprollingriver5820
      @deeprollingriver5820 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      One day our descendants will marvel at what we had to go through.

  • @Emanonerewhon
    @Emanonerewhon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +766

    Watching this, one can’t help but marvel at what an incredibly complex world we live in, and especially at what a close-run thing civilization truly is. At any moment, natural forces beyond our control can simply turn the page on humankind as we know it. It’s just remarkable.

    • @jamesdagiantpeach
      @jamesdagiantpeach 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      You're absolutely right. It just shows how insignificant we really are in the grand scheme of how the physical world really works.

    • @mariusmatei2946
      @mariusmatei2946 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yep, it's the (fragile system of) "threads" that binds (our) modern world (together), and enables (our modern) life (routines) to run smoothly; break one "thread", and the entire interconnected, and sophisticated (but delicate) system of "threads" will collapse (I must credit the film "Threads" for that analogy/metaphor)!!

    • @halnogaies1256
      @halnogaies1256 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So... We're not the gods we thought we were, eh?

    • @youtubesucks5080
      @youtubesucks5080 ปีที่แล้ว

      You are thinking like a medieval peasant.
      We have the means to alter nature herself, but people and their false beliefs keep foiling us.
      You can't eat half the vegetables/fruits in the store if you are against man-adjusted-produce.
      We did GMO before GMO was even a thing. it's called selective breeding.
      If I were you I'd be much more scared of getting thrown in a gulag by rabid ignorant naive antifa thugs.

    • @user-qf7ud5de9h
      @user-qf7ud5de9h 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The earth's polarity is currently reversing. Polar north is off by 300 miles now, where before that it was only off by 30 miles.

  • @jabronis33
    @jabronis33 2 ปีที่แล้ว +534

    During this time, the Eastern Roman empire was fighting with the Sassanid empire in Persia. An emissary went to Syria, when they noticed everyone getting sick. He went back and told the king to call off the invasion.

    • @iwlaequitas7897
      @iwlaequitas7897 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Conquering the world in self defense.

    • @InOppositiontotheNewWorldOrder
      @InOppositiontotheNewWorldOrder 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      According to my research: The 'Eternal Peace Agreement', ending the war between Sassanid Persia and the Eastern Roman Empire, was signed in 532 AD.

    • @FlaviusMaximus1967
      @FlaviusMaximus1967 2 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      @@iwlaequitas7897 Rome conquered the world in a series of self defensive wars!
      USA went into Iraq in self defense. Russia went into Ukraine in self defense.
      You really have to wonder who really believes these wars of aggression are "self defense".....fools???

    • @iwlaequitas7897
      @iwlaequitas7897 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@FlaviusMaximus1967 Do you ever listen to Dan Carlin hardcore history? Listen to the Gaulic Holocaust. It explains Rome's "defensive" wars in great detail.
      Edit: Celtic Holocaust sorry I got the title wrong

    • @InOppositiontotheNewWorldOrder
      @InOppositiontotheNewWorldOrder 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@FlaviusMaximus1967
      The same people that get their education from the Babylonian Babysitter.

  • @susanmorgan8833
    @susanmorgan8833 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1077

    When Mt. St. Helens erupted, a relative in Portland sent us a vial of the resultant ash that she'd scraped off foliage in her yard. It was unbelievably fine, and it was easy to see how the wind could carry it great distances.

    • @enlightenedhummingbird4764
      @enlightenedhummingbird4764 2 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      I love that! I was in elementary school in IL, and my Grandmother lived in Portland. She sent us a vial of ash, too! I took it for show and tell, and I was the coolest kid that day! 😁 (That may be the only positive that came out of the whole situation...) 😕

    • @VvpandoravV
      @VvpandoravV 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      We were scraping about 1” of ash off our windshields here in Houston about a week after she erupted that year. Took about 3 weeks for the wind to change for it to die down. Given the choice I’d rather scrape snow ✌️

    • @jamesmoore3694
      @jamesmoore3694 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      i was in portland watching the grateful dead play. this was the night st helens blew out the lava dome. a steady ash fall at 11 pm. smiles from mt hood

    • @michellecardenas6072
      @michellecardenas6072 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@enlightenedhummingbird4764 omg, that is too crazy...i had a friend that did the same thing for her show n tell at school in CA. I guess it was the happening thing at that time.

    • @christopherwillows5515
      @christopherwillows5515 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@MintRanch now that is perspective. Crazy to think it extended that far

  • @phyllojoe5346
    @phyllojoe5346 ปีที่แล้ว +221

    Given covid, I think the world would cope with a worldwide incident quite poorly

    • @jefffitztight5784
      @jefffitztight5784 ปีที่แล้ว

      @The Science of Violence what do you mean trade spreads germs?? that's commie science

    • @annbuena5710
      @annbuena5710 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @The Science of Violence ur username is genius ngl

    • @dklee.01
      @dklee.01 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yeah i was gonna say 😭

    • @dklee.01
      @dklee.01 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Savage Cock so sad but true

    • @flytink1
      @flytink1 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      If we ever experience the equivalent of a nuclear winter, we’re fucked. We’d have to really step up food production by growing things indoors with UV lighting. But even doing that wouldn’t be able to compensate for fields and fields of the agriculture cultivated on an industrial scale?! Food and water shortages would be inevitable. We have de-salinization to combat severe drought, but we probably wouldn’t be able to produce enough water to compensate.

  • @dukeandika3292
    @dukeandika3292 2 ปีที่แล้ว +503

    I'm from Indonesia. This video gimme answer why our historic notes about our ancient kingdoms was missing between 6-8 Century. In 5th century several ancients kingdoms were thriving during Indonesian archipelago like Kingdom of Kutai and Tarumanegara . Without clear reason, all of those ancient notes were missing at 6 th century.

    • @M0rmagil
      @M0rmagil 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      That would seem like a pretty good explanation. Being in the immediate vicinity of such an event would make life very difficult indeed. 😕

    • @55robinwood
      @55robinwood 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Of course it would have been even worse where you are. A killer.

    • @BigBangTheoryIsALie
      @BigBangTheoryIsALie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Because youre a duke now

    • @MrBigRiceBoy
      @MrBigRiceBoy ปีที่แล้ว +13

      The void century

    • @___queueue7707
      @___queueue7707 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What kind of notes? Chinese notes?

  • @llSuperSnivyll
    @llSuperSnivyll 2 ปีที่แล้ว +603

    It puts into dimension how 'privileged' we are right now to actually know what's going on.
    Meanwhile, you could be a random Roman citizen at Ravenna and see the sky's gone dark, that the summer feels cold and that there's a sudden food shortage, with no knowledge that it's all caused by the eruption of a volcano that is located in a land you don't even know exists.

    • @finalflowerchild
      @finalflowerchild ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ravenna has a beautiful early church.

    • @llSuperSnivyll
      @llSuperSnivyll ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@EverythingLvl We are priviledged in that we get to know WHY there's a crisis. Meanwhile, even the richest of citizens would not know that everything went downhill because of a volcano eruption in another continent.

    • @xiphactinusaudax1045
      @xiphactinusaudax1045 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ravenna wasn't in Rome during 536...IDK if you're talking about a different event

    • @histguy101
      @histguy101 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@xiphactinusaudax1045 Sure it was. It was the capital of Italy.

    • @tundrance
      @tundrance ปีที่แล้ว

      @@EverythingLvl what does that even mean??

  • @deeprollingriver5820
    @deeprollingriver5820 2 ปีที่แล้ว +244

    I’m looking at my dog and realized her ancestors survived this also.

    • @sauviel6296
      @sauviel6296 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Im looking at my dog and realized I'm really hungry right now

    • @KimiHayashi
      @KimiHayashi ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@sauviel6296 I'm looking at you and I realized my dog is hungry right now

  • @reds1325
    @reds1325 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Can't be worse then my parents walking 20 miles barefoot in their grandparents hand me downs in a snow storm to school back in their day.

    • @kilderok
      @kilderok ปีที่แล้ว

      Tommy Pickles grandpa? Is that you?

  • @ChairmanMeow1
    @ChairmanMeow1 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    You think "Yea, well 2022 wasn't nice" then you watch something like this and remember how good you have it

  • @Mavendow
    @Mavendow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +283

    I read the sound of Krakatoa's eruption in 1883 created a concussive shockwave circled the globe four times. The ocean was measured to rise and fall in lockstep with the blast. Some within a 50km radius might've died just from the wave of air impacting their body. And that was calculated at only 13,000x hiroshima. 2,000,000,000x? I can't even imagine an eruption that size.

    • @TheRealRusDaddy
      @TheRealRusDaddy ปีที่แล้ว

      Im sure someone was close enough to die from it there had to be

    • @lindianisyafira6706
      @lindianisyafira6706 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It is true all over my country indonesia and so hawaii dark for several moment

    • @eithnemelee2997
      @eithnemelee2997 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That same shockwave was powerful enough to rupture the eardrums of all the sailors on a ship that was almost 50km away from the epicenter of the explosion. Crazy stuff to think about.

    • @scipiorattikanus5522
      @scipiorattikanus5522 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I was thinking that when I heard 2,000,000,000 times. I thought to myself.. "Damn, that's a miscalculation."

    • @meridien52681
      @meridien52681 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Toba event was WAY worse. The supposedly, it was the loudest sound heard on earth.

  • @shutthefrontdoor733
    @shutthefrontdoor733 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Why is history so much more interesting the older you get? I am always fascinated by so many great stories told about the past. Thank you for a really well done documentary

    • @Daelyah
      @Daelyah ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Perhaps because, the older we get, the more we must face uncertain futures, and therefore the more we look to the past for guidance and inspiration.

    • @pjames4931
      @pjames4931 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      when we are young we are still discovering the modern area. it’s something we still needed to discover.

    • @dustinvanwinkle5078
      @dustinvanwinkle5078 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Personally I was way more interested in history when I was younger. As I've gotten older I've cared less and less since civilization doesn't ever seem to learn it's lessons lol

    • @shutthefrontdoor733
      @shutthefrontdoor733 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dustinvanwinkle5078 I can respect this response and sort of agree with you but I still find it fascinating the way they lived and how the got through tough times

    • @dustinvanwinkle5078
      @dustinvanwinkle5078 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@shutthefrontdoor733 for sure same here. I still love history I just tend to do my own deep dives these days. I stopped watching shows ect many many years ago so it's mostly reading or podcasts for me.

  • @deandeann1541
    @deandeann1541 2 ปีที่แล้ว +286

    Ilopango volcano in El Salvador erupted in 535 AD - some believe this was responsible for the collapse of Teotihuacan. I'm sure the eruption in 536 AD at Krakatao did not help things for them.

    • @steffenritter7497
      @steffenritter7497 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Indeed, I saw a video on this eruption about a year ago. I haven't been able to find it, since.

    • @55robinwood
      @55robinwood 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Experts are saying that these 2 caused the problem

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      what Jack would call a double event

    • @aron1332
      @aron1332 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Ilopango theory is already disproven (it erupted a century earlier) and Krakatoa neither erupted in 536 (there is an eruption in 540).

  • @abbycelella4311
    @abbycelella4311 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    watching post mental breakdown to remind myself how lucky i am to just sit in bed and eat berries i didn’t even have to pick

  • @Lucky_Chase
    @Lucky_Chase 2 ปีที่แล้ว +143

    Well!
    No need for horror movies when you have actual history to look at.

    • @byronharano2391
      @byronharano2391 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well said

    • @karenandrews4224
      @karenandrews4224 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Or evolution- Here (on earth) be monsters (dinosaurs et Al)

    • @byronharano2391
      @byronharano2391 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@karenandrews4224 Thunder-lizards are cool.

    • @dunjahornung3084
      @dunjahornung3084 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Life always writes the best stories.

  • @SynthD
    @SynthD ปีที่แล้ว +51

    It never ceases to amaze me that my ancestors survived all of history.

    • @tarabooartarmy3654
      @tarabooartarmy3654 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Yeah, and survival of the fittest somehow led to us -- a few generations of Karens and Tik Tokers.

    • @StarOnTheWater
      @StarOnTheWater ปีที่แล้ว +3

      If you count reproduction as survival, yes.

  • @brocknspectre1221
    @brocknspectre1221 2 ปีที่แล้ว +216

    I’m surprised they didn’t talk about the 1815 eruption of mount Tambora. It’s still remembered as the year without a summer or "Eighteen-hundred and froze to death"

    • @blue-cg8uz
      @blue-cg8uz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      The Irish famine was also because a volcanic eruption which was because altered weather from the ash in atmosphere. People who study tree rings can tell this also. They say violins built from the wood of those times made the best violins because the extra density in rings.

    • @bruzote
      @bruzote 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@blue-cg8uz - I am sorry you were told that. It is nonsense. As a properly educated physicist and meteorologist, I would love to know what research source you've read and how it was peer-reviewed. The Irish Potato Famine had multiple causes. First and foremost, the Irish were horribly oppressed by the British, arguably worse than slaves(!). Yes, that's true. The British did not provide food or any care at all for the Irish, unlike slave owners who would at least keep their valuable slaves alive to keep them working! The British didn't let the Irish even live in cities or hold a trade, let alone own the land. The British took that. They destroyed the ability of the Irish to handle a famine. In fact, records suggest Irish food exports went UP during (was the first year?) of the famine. The British were unbelievably cruel to the Irish. The second reason is a fungus, called a blight, that infected the Irish potato crops. This was a huge problem, particularly since Ireland had a monoculture of potatoes, and no alternative varieties were being grown, let alone a variety that was fungus-resistance. Please try to list the source you had for your claim. I would love to read what quantifiable research some "scientists" used to disregard both the blight and the British oppression when it comes to the causes of the Great Hunger.
      I am not saying weather was not affected, but people round the world didn't experience the Great Hunger. Ireland did. It was not due to a volcano, and their INCREASED food exports were not possible if a volcano could have such a horrific impact on food the citizens needed to grow for themselves instead of exporting (or using as feed for animal meat exports).

    • @bweaver760
      @bweaver760 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The Victorian age of the 1800’s (19th century) was somewhat of a semi-ice age in the climate of the world.

    • @bweaver760
      @bweaver760 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bruzote So, you are saying that political control and the power structures of a country has a much bigger impact on food sources and famine in the human condition. Then the growth in corruption of the ruling class is the biggest impact in the demise of human civilization! We are living in such corruption at this time in the USA. Be prepared for more food shortages in the USA, due to corrupted government controls!

    • @multibasking
      @multibasking 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@bruzote you’re not properly educated if you think british treatment of the irish is worse let alone comparable to chattel slavery.

  • @aliz.5305
    @aliz.5305 2 ปีที่แล้ว +231

    When you think about how often people die in the present day (which is A LOT) and how humans used to die even more often for as long as we've existed, it starts to become clear we're literally just another life form on this planet that isn't tougher or more special than ants or fungus. And as a human who tends to think of humans in general as being extra special, it's quite sobering to come to this realization.

    • @catboynestormakhno2694
      @catboynestormakhno2694 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      true, we have only recently begun our reconstruction of the world to benefit our needs in such explosive manners as we have had within these last hundred years, we stand upon the edge of great disasters and great development

    • @literallynothingatall8175
      @literallynothingatall8175 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      It makes me think that the meaning of life is that there isn’t one. Everything is just a series of events leading to everything right now, it’s crazy to think how humans have evolved from sleeping on the ground to sleeping in 10 - 40 story apartments with high quality beds, TV, phones, and more.

    • @christinapaterno5585
      @christinapaterno5585 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      You have the ability to reason, and to be conscious, and a responsibility to care for the creatures and plants that are not. Saying we are the same is incorrect.

    • @aliz.5305
      @aliz.5305 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@christinapaterno5585 I believe you took my statement about being the same too literally. I am aware that we have self awareness and reasoning skills (although these same traits have been found in other mammals). In the grand scheme of things, humans aren't extra special. We are here playing the same game of survival just like every other living organism. Take away civilization and we're one meal away from being ruthless animals again.

    • @catherineadair9078
      @catherineadair9078 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Humans are extra-special.

  • @luciavaughan9464
    @luciavaughan9464 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    The amount of combined scientific research in this video is absolutely insane.

  • @juliac9080
    @juliac9080 2 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    We're all here today because someone in our family tree in 536 wasn't a wimp.

    • @aspenrebel
      @aspenrebel 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I saw a documentary one time about AIDS as well as plagues in England. They found that if people had 2 of a certain gene or something they didn't get the plague, if they had one they got sick but then recovered, if they had none they got sick and died. So then they found out just same with AIDS because of 1 guy in the documentary was gay and he found out he could not get AIDS and die. Cause he had 2 of these gene things.

    • @lestatangel
      @lestatangel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So true.

    • @aspenrebel
      @aspenrebel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Automedon2 Did you see it? I recall they talked all about plagues in Europe and England, why some people didn't die. I think gay guy was from SF, and he was wondering why he didn't have AIDS and die, when so many of his "friends" had AIDS or had died. He wondered if doctors had ever studied gay men who DID NOT get AIDS, rather than just studying those that did.

    • @aspenrebel
      @aspenrebel 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Automedon2 there u go

    • @agentorange81
      @agentorange81 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Or a well stocked hoarder ,still eithers doing better than me

  • @Fido-vm9zi
    @Fido-vm9zi ปีที่แล้ว +64

    I'd like to thank my ancestors for surviving. I didn't live in ancient times of famine, but something inside me makes me grateful for everything. Small things, such as a tomato or piece of fruit.

    • @annastinehammersdottir1290
      @annastinehammersdottir1290 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We are here by fateful, wonderful randomness and yet we are giving it away.

  • @TypeOneg
    @TypeOneg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    It's scary and weird to think about how most of us with European heritage are only here by the sheer dumb luck and immunity genetics that allowed us through the eye of that needle to the future.

    • @Patrick3183
      @Patrick3183 ปีที่แล้ว

      modern Europeans did not originate in Europe

  • @MsKittyGirl2010
    @MsKittyGirl2010 2 ปีที่แล้ว +105

    Only a matter of time before a mega volcano erupts again. Scary to think about it really.

    • @tisbutascratch2045
      @tisbutascratch2045 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Yes but hopefully if it does, we'll be better prepared for it with modern technology and sciences.

    • @ossiehalvorson7702
      @ossiehalvorson7702 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tisbutascratch2045 We have WAY too many people to feed, and technology has actually done more to make us poor at surviving in times of global crisis. There's no way we can keep up if this happens again. The people who are either well off and/or skilled survivalists will mostly be okay, and the people who aren't will mostly die. The majority of people on Earth, especially in first world countries, fall in the latter category.

    • @MsKawaiichii
      @MsKawaiichii 2 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      @@tisbutascratch2045 **looks at how current disasters are being managed** (nervous laughter)

    • @mikekahl5609
      @mikekahl5609 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@tisbutascratch2045 better prepared? Modern humans are so lazy they can't survive if it snows for 3 days or they lose phone signal.

    • @honeydew1678
      @honeydew1678 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@mikekahl5609 when it comes to life or death, we move quick. trust me.

  • @Lora-G
    @Lora-G 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I would never want to live before the invention of general anesthesia ❣️‼️

  • @michaelsteane9926
    @michaelsteane9926 2 ปีที่แล้ว +371

    To all those people commenting about 2020 etc. being worse. Appreciate the wonders we now live among. These are the best times ever. For those who don't love to whinge.

    • @nightfightsday
      @nightfightsday 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      wrong we're in dark times, you must live in a fucking bubble

    • @johnhenry7861
      @johnhenry7861 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@nightfightsday our quality of life is insanely better than the lives of people that lived during the 6th century. Be grateful you’re watching TH-cam instead of starving to death or being sold into slavery

    • @bringer-of-change
      @bringer-of-change 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah. The bad things happening now are man made problems. Things that could be stopped by those who have the know how and the resolve. Cant just top volcanoes from going off though. Cant just stop nature.

    • @nightfightsday
      @nightfightsday 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@johnhenry7861 don't fuckin preach to me, I know how bad the world is now...it's completely corrupted by evil humans who are self-absorbed, psychotic, and greedy..suffering is everywhere in the world. You have murder, torture, rape, pollution, and destruction of our natural resources has been taking place...we shit where we eat and we don't give a fuck..we have sex trafficking, and slavery still, people are starving in the world, many people are trapped in terrible countries with shitty governments such as China, North Korea, and even Russia, we're on the brink of ww3 and you act like the world is made of rainbows and pussies..pull your head out of your ass and look beyond your nose and look at the bigger picture here

    • @nightfightsday
      @nightfightsday 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@bringer-of-change yeah man-made problems that have been going on since Sumer the shit is never going to stop until we kill ourselves, which we probably will or like you said nature gets involved and swats us like the flies we are

  • @milktea4270
    @milktea4270 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The fact we’re all here today, knowing our ancestors were some of the few that survived, makes me think that we’re a bit lucky to exist

    • @kilderok
      @kilderok ปีที่แล้ว

      When your grandmother survived abortion and your mother needed a blood transfusion to survive birth, you know you're even luckier.

    • @chiefswife1212
      @chiefswife1212 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      C ertainly explains why we're all related on 23 and me!

    • @gilknutson
      @gilknutson 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Keep in mind, some of the latest research indicates that humans were down to less than 2000 breeding pairs 900,000 years ago!!! That Genetic Bottleneck could have resulted in mankind’s extinction!!!…

    • @gilknutson
      @gilknutson 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Keep in mind, over 90% or more of all species are extinct…..

  • @haroldthaf
    @haroldthaf ปีที่แล้ว +7

    You gotta admire the dedication of the cameraman, pulling some sick panoramic shots and close-ups before it was cool.

  • @number1enemyoftheuseless985
    @number1enemyoftheuseless985 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    What is amazing is that someone is still alive to account for what happened back then. Crazy...

    • @IsengardMordor
      @IsengardMordor ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That would have been awesome

    • @kilderok
      @kilderok ปีที่แล้ว

      Surely the most alive of all time

  • @snickle1980
    @snickle1980 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    😐Ok, but for at least one person back then, this was a really _GREAT year,_ ya know?
    I promise you that there was at least ONE son of a nobleman who partied throughout the entire year of 536...And he likely wrote to his uncle about it.

    • @Patrick3183
      @Patrick3183 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Was it you?

    • @snickle1980
      @snickle1980 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Patrick3183 (rips off mask) No, it was old man Kruthers who ran the haunted amusement park!

    • @jordanranks3180
      @jordanranks3180 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s true I’m the uncle

    • @aubreel4576
      @aubreel4576 ปีที่แล้ว

      🤣

  • @realessayog6947
    @realessayog6947 2 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    I remember reading about this year during undergrad in college... I'm not sure why? It's crazy how we kept things documented for so long right?

    • @aspenrebel
      @aspenrebel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I have his book "Catastrophe". Very interesting but unfortunately he is unable to come up with any proof to support his theories and conclusions. Cuz such is so ellusive and difficult to find. But he's probably quite correct.

    • @cathymarcello282
      @cathymarcello282 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They made a movie.. Krakatoa, East of Java…

    • @aspenrebel
      @aspenrebel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@cathymarcello282 who was in it? Bruce Willis?

    • @cathymarcello282
      @cathymarcello282 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aspenrebel I’m pretty sure it was back in the 70s… don’t think Willis was around yet

    • @cathymarcello282
      @cathymarcello282 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      1968.. Diane Baker, Maximilian Schell, Sal Mineo

  • @scottbrandon6244
    @scottbrandon6244 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    The 1815 eruption in Indonesia caused global havoc. 1816 was described as the year without a summer. There were crop failures and snow storms in June through August in America.

    • @Patrick3183
      @Patrick3183 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This is about the 536 earthquake.

  • @ocpofficialrep7026
    @ocpofficialrep7026 2 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    536 was a fantastic year. Loved it

  • @fullscorpion5285
    @fullscorpion5285 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Hopefully these volcanos can learn to process their fiery anger instead of waiting until they blow their lids. Perhaps EMDR might relieve some of the pressure?

  • @sebell69
    @sebell69 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    that would explain all those "underground" cities that are been found all over the place (that "nobody" seems to be able to explain why they are there)!!

    • @delinquentinparadise
      @delinquentinparadise 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Before Noah's flood towards the latter end of the ice age sea levels were some 75 meters lower than they are today.
      A huge number of city's are now under water. The ice age continues to to lose the ice from places such as Greenland, the North Pole, Antarctica and so on to this day. Which is caused by the entirely natural event of global warming. Sea levels continue to rise as they have for the last 20,000 years.

    • @tealkerberus748
      @tealkerberus748 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Building underground works. Ash the people of Coober Pedy or the people of the hot bits of India and adjacent countries who has the better city. When it's routinely hotter than blood heat outdoors, underground is cool.

  • @gentlejuliet
    @gentlejuliet ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Every time they say Krakatoa, I imagine that one episode of SpongeBob where they’re superheroes 😭

    • @kilderok
      @kilderok ปีที่แล้ว

      Same lol no wonder Squidward just exploded.

  • @lumberpilot
    @lumberpilot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    It's paradoxical that the tower is the structure most in tact .You think of things toppling from the top down.

  • @RaysofLight98
    @RaysofLight98 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Makes you really glad to live in a chaotic, but more connected, world.

  • @johnathonmullis4234
    @johnathonmullis4234 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I was living in Florida when mt. St. Helens erupted back around 1980. The sky stayed grey for months and ash rained down for weeks. I want to think we heard the explosion but it was so long ago. I heard from guys I later served in the Navy with who said they had ash cover the ships hundreds of miles out to sea in the Atlantic Ocean from that eruption. It’s easy to forget just how powerful Mother Nature is.

    • @gloriarangott8803
      @gloriarangott8803 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We should remember that "mother nature" has a very dark and volatile side😮

  • @lindakay9552
    @lindakay9552 2 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    I live in Washington state. There's geological evidence of ash from other explosions effecting the climate here. There is Mt. Mazama ash in the ground here

    • @onderozenc4470
      @onderozenc4470 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      From Mc Kenzie volcano ?

    • @thesteelworks8088
      @thesteelworks8088 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Also Look into the scablands in Washington state great deluge of waters at unimaginable great floods

    • @altheacraig2904
      @altheacraig2904 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I also live here. In Auburn. In my comment above I mentioned what I learned about the Yellowstone volcano and how I learned it. Where is the Krakatoa ash found? I'd like to have some. I have some of Mt. Saint Helens. To me all this is awesome!
      k

    • @lindakay9552
      @lindakay9552 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@altheacraig2904
      Professor Nick Zentner, at Central Washington University, is my geology Guru. I had to go back and listen to his videos to find the Lord of Lahars: Brian Atwater
      It's been so long since I watched their lectures, I mixed up two discoveries.
      Atwater was in Indonesia, when he discovered that a 1700 Japan tsunami was caused by a Juan de Fuca quake.
      He ALSO discovered Mt. Mazama ash (Crater Lake, OR) in the sand layers just off Washington coast.
      If you type into TH-cam Nick Zentner, or Brian Atwater, you will find hundreds of hours of university lectures on Washington geology. 🤗😘

    • @lindakay9552
      @lindakay9552 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thesteelworks8088 one of my favorite subjects! 💜💙 I don't even have to try to imagine it. We have scientific proof of where the water level used to sit all around Wenatchee Valley
      At one time Saddlerock (in Wenatchee) was almost completely submerged.

  • @willmcgo8288
    @willmcgo8288 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    For anyone who wondered like myself when this first aired, this looks to be from 1999 (MCMXCIX). Those big computer monitors were a hint to that.

  • @AgathaDrinksTea
    @AgathaDrinksTea 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Dang that guy on the horse is a good looking fella...

  • @RayRay-cq5ky
    @RayRay-cq5ky 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Wow! Climate change, pandemic, war and a global food shortage happening all at once? I can't even imagine.

  • @zachary9925
    @zachary9925 2 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    If this happened today, no doubt half the population would deny that volcanos even exist.

    • @elduderino7725
      @elduderino7725 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      "We need to talk about how racism caused the eruption and the effects are largely felt by POC/LGBTQA folx."

    • @zachary9925
      @zachary9925 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@elduderino7725 Probably not the first part, but yes the second part would certainly happen.

    • @ossiehalvorson7702
      @ossiehalvorson7702 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@zachary9925 Nah, people only worry about shit like that because our survival isn't immediately compromised, so they can afford to concern themselves with social issues like that.
      If this happens today, it'll take a few months tops, depending on how much food storage we have globally, before everyone turns against each other and we hit a new era of tribalism.

    • @kierj9858
      @kierj9858 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@elduderino7725 🤣🎯💯

    • @toomanymarys7355
      @toomanymarys7355 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      More like they'd blame "fossil fuels" and "climate change" for it. Bill Nye literally blamed a tsunami on climate change not long ago on national TV. 🤣🤣🤣

  • @flugsven
    @flugsven 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This apocalyptic video wasn't exactly what I needed these apocalyptic days.

    • @jillcrowe2626
      @jillcrowe2626 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This program tells us that we're all just fine. Are you fed and housed? I am. I also am a member of a church and we all phone and write to each other. I don't feel alone.

    • @flugsven
      @flugsven 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jillcrowe2626 ..until it ended with naming the vulcanos ready to pop off and send us to a new variant of year 536 with all the consequences. 🤷🏼‍♀️

    • @1ACL
      @1ACL 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      For some reason, it makes me feel better. Watching catastrophes instead of catastrophizing in my head.

  • @GeeZeusJnrGTBond63
    @GeeZeusJnrGTBond63 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Kra·ka·tau (krăk′ə-tou′, krä′kə-) or Kra·ka·to·a (-tō′ə)
    A volcanic island of Indonesia between Sumatra and Java. An explosive eruption in August 1883 destroyed most of the island and caused a tsunami that killed more than 36,000 people.

  • @karenhodges7545
    @karenhodges7545 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you. The detail and production are marvelous.

  • @Madmen604
    @Madmen604 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Imagine how fresh the water was, how clean the air, how lush the forests. Aside from the usual natural disasters...

  • @RachealRichardson
    @RachealRichardson 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Exceptional research. Explains so many gaps in history...much will need to be re-written.

  • @mariavilleda5086
    @mariavilleda5086 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Somehow I ended up here and love it! Everyone needs to watch this. Really makes you think of our current times. History truly repeats itself

    • @staleruudeidsvoll4645
      @staleruudeidsvoll4645 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ME TO I LOVE IT:: thank you for beeing 2? be nice, all negative energy ends up same as positiv. and the 3 melts.. or?

  • @Mc4est
    @Mc4est 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    LOL I just love how the Krakatoa expert is simulating the eruption in a "Super Computer", and it looks like just a computer from 2000 in his bedroom..

  • @jvcpaints
    @jvcpaints 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This was good. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Thank you for posting it.

  • @M0rmagil
    @M0rmagil 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    As Homer would say, “The worst year so far!”

    • @danielwilliams2624
      @danielwilliams2624 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Homer doesn't say that, Comic Book Guy does. You're not a real Simpson's fan😂 you should change your pic

    • @NeutralGuyDoubleZero
      @NeutralGuyDoubleZero 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@danielwilliams2624 Homer says it to Bart in the movie

  • @altheacraig2904
    @altheacraig2904 2 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    It has erupted much more than that! Because of plate tectonics the Yellowstone volcano was out in the Pacific Ocean long before it ended up in Wyoming. I learned this from Nick Zentner the geologist professor at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, WA.

    • @ianworley8169
      @ianworley8169 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Of course it has, but these are climatic changes brought about by volcanic activity, within recorded history. Not tectonic activity within geological time. A matter of changes happening within the last hundreds of years, rather than millenia or even millions of years.

    • @JPaterson8942
      @JPaterson8942 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I like listening to Nick's lectures when I'm at work. They really give perspective of the geologic changes of the area.

    • @aspenrebel
      @aspenrebel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Well who the hell decided to move it to Wy.?

    • @jasonlambert5552
      @jasonlambert5552 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@aspenrebel Lovely in the spring, cheap rent.

    • @blazegreen3013
      @blazegreen3013 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I saw the same show, LOL I've seen many of his videos, he's awesome when it comes to rocks and volcanos

  • @MarkHallamNYC
    @MarkHallamNYC 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    At 2:43 is the "supercomputer" he purportedly inputted the data to. 😂

    • @bookmouse2719
      @bookmouse2719 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Obviously this was made quite a while ago. Get over it.

    • @issstari954
      @issstari954 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Very old video yes at the time that was a super computer

    • @MarkHallamNYC
      @MarkHallamNYC 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@issstari954 no, it wasn't. I had one in my living room and you bought them at Radio Shack or Walmart.

    • @eighteenin78
      @eighteenin78 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Video was released in 1999.

    • @rambler5766
      @rambler5766 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Probably just the I/O terminal, not the actual computer.

  • @maeghi
    @maeghi 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm super glad to finally know the detailed differences between horsesh*t and bullsh*t

  • @olivemd
    @olivemd 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Third time I’m watching this. His voice is so relaxing.

  • @rebeccaweil1
    @rebeccaweil1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Incredible . A great documentary.

  • @Nosmaclear
    @Nosmaclear 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    -The documentarians are really reaching with the Arthurian legend written 700 years later. "Could it be" statements are about as useful as "we couldn't find evidence, but who cares?"

    • @aspenrebel
      @aspenrebel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "Legend"? How dare you!! That's my King you're talking about!!

    • @toomanymarys7355
      @toomanymarys7355 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      TBF, Bede around 800 was the first to record the Arthurian legend, but obviously it grew.

  • @HhhhgftrVvvvjjh
    @HhhhgftrVvvvjjh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Omy… such unsettling backgroundsounds… got the chills from that alone

  • @raybrown8412
    @raybrown8412 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    2022 might put this to the test.

  • @nidhinjuvin
    @nidhinjuvin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    greed is the actual plague

  • @lindseyelliott7038
    @lindseyelliott7038 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Okay but they went off with the music on this. Feels ancient and gives you a sense of dread I love it,

  • @drebarthelotte5712
    @drebarthelotte5712 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wonderful video. Thank you 😊

  • @verresmilliterres
    @verresmilliterres 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'm sure politicians have already thought and planned quite thoroughly on how they will take care of themselves.

  • @taramarissaalmarri
    @taramarissaalmarri 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Really well organized and explained video 😁👍

  • @themedia1271
    @themedia1271 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Nobody:
    People in 536 AD: "OMG WORST YEAR EVER WHEN WILL THIS END!"

  • @jonathanbuyno9461
    @jonathanbuyno9461 ปีที่แล้ว

    My kind of channel! Thanks for making these!

  • @exmormonroverpaula2319
    @exmormonroverpaula2319 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    While this documentary is interesting, it is unfortunately highly speculative. Don't take anything here too seriously.

    • @aspenrebel
      @aspenrebel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      But quite probable.

    • @southsiren
      @southsiren 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yeah my ears were perked until he called that really old desktop a "super computer"

    • @eithnemelee2997
      @eithnemelee2997 ปีที่แล้ว

      It is not particularly speculative. We have excellent evidence of a sudden sharp decline in global temperature around this time period from dendrochronology, the recorded histories of various cultures at the time, and from observations of more recent volcanic events that had similar effects.

    • @jeannefoster5594
      @jeannefoster5594 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      An Amazon review of Catastrophe by D. Keys said that his Avar info was somewhat speculative.

  • @sancho8521
    @sancho8521 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    ...Earth has been through a lot. Imagine living anywhere on this planet; you were affected

  • @User0000000000000004
    @User0000000000000004 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The computer animations in this deserve awards. NOW.

  • @thisisamandagoins
    @thisisamandagoins 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was a fantastic eye-opening video.

  • @oggyreidmore
    @oggyreidmore ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Homer Simpson: "The worst year to be alive SO FAR."

  • @MrRodQ
    @MrRodQ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Knock on effect is basically chain reaction. And it's sad people can't identify knock on effects with our current world situation. We're going to need a compilation of world events from 2020 - 2030 for folks to understand we're in trouble brewing.

  • @andrewjackson7758
    @andrewjackson7758 2 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Biological warfare was another fun thing that people did by catapulting diseased corpses over city walls like the Tartars did to the Genoans in 1347, which for all intents and purposes were just as horrible as events 8 centuries before.

    • @Mullet-ZubazPants
      @Mullet-ZubazPants ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That was in Kaffa (Crimea). The Genoese were there because it was a great trade market for slaves. Mongols would sell Christian slaves to the Genoese, who then sold them throughout the Muslim world

  • @livinginsoutheasttexas
    @livinginsoutheasttexas 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    3AM ME: Tomorrow is going to suck
    TH-cam:" Why the year 536 AD was the worst year to be alive "
    ME: oh ok then. I'll be right maybe.
    2022: hello.

  • @ejwatcher5643
    @ejwatcher5643 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I'm in Queensland, Australia and this year has already been shocking. Considering it's only March, we are feeling very tired already. Covid lock downs then massive floods, people here are really struggling.

    • @pooryorick831
      @pooryorick831 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Sorry to hear about the struggles in Australia. We had our share of crazy weather here in the US as well. Fires and floods in the west and heavy winds in the midwest. Our house flooded and our fence and roof sustained damage too. We never know what the coming year is going to hold.

    • @gertrudewest4535
      @gertrudewest4535 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Severe drought and six months of brutal triple digit record heat for us here in Southern Arizona. Wells drying up, lakes drying up and no rain in sight.

    • @ejwatcher5643
      @ejwatcher5643 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gertrudewest4535 I feel your pain, that's our usual sinario, hope you can hang in there. 💪👍

    • @ejwatcher5643
      @ejwatcher5643 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@pooryorick831 yeah, sure is an exciting time to be alive , never a dull moment. Hopefully we all get a break soon.

    • @sebastienloyer9471
      @sebastienloyer9471 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      IT is a war of attrition.
      Time for fighting back.
      Think ,5th colons

  • @t.j.payeur5331
    @t.j.payeur5331 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    To cross the American Great Plains in wagons in the 1800s people had to exchange their horses for oxen because the horses would starve in the grasslands.

    • @reavanante2160
      @reavanante2160 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you. The grade school story was that they were just not strong enough. Which I think is most likely. Truthfully the horse seems to be greatly affected by the soil composition grazing is found. Some soils are good, others are not. One of the reasons the plains were settled is that many areas were very fertile (equals good pasture) You don't find that everywhere.

    • @an-tm3250
      @an-tm3250 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Also understood it was an endurance decision. Annoys me when westerns show horses instead. A tough trek under any conditions.

    • @slappy8941
      @slappy8941 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Oxen are better at pulling heavy loads slowly over long distances, and can live on rougher forage.

    • @aspenrebel
      @aspenrebel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Wrong kind of horses. The Commanches had the right kind of horses.

    • @i-never-look-at-replies-lol
      @i-never-look-at-replies-lol 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Take that you stupid horses!

  • @Lifeinbelize
    @Lifeinbelize 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Super interesting. Thank you

  • @nuggitron
    @nuggitron ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I never knew about the correlation between plague and temperature. Interesting. Thanks.

  • @artbyporschia
    @artbyporschia ปีที่แล้ว +14

    2:01 I've never heard of the number two thousand million, now I see that it is a cultural difference I say 2 billion, you say two thousand million, tomato tomato ;) This video is so full of information to learn! Love it!

    • @tconthepc_6958
      @tconthepc_6958 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah that threw me off, I had to rewind to make sure I heard him correctly

  • @nataliadoe7126
    @nataliadoe7126 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Shoutout to all our ancestors for being able to survive this lol

  • @mitalichinmulgund8679
    @mitalichinmulgund8679 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I just finished watching another program on this channel showing how the dark ages were not dark, and that the anglo saxons did not invade, they came as settlers, that when the Roman rulers left, the people on the island continued to live the Roman style of life.

    • @histguy101
      @histguy101 ปีที่แล้ว

      There's several ancient sources about Anglo-Saxon invaders, who were already raiding the coasts of Britain and Gaul in the 4th century.

  • @lauraleigh5562
    @lauraleigh5562 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting and really enjoyed.

  • @StoneOcean595
    @StoneOcean595 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Imagine what the world would be like if the Volcano never erupted

  • @thegovernmentshill
    @thegovernmentshill 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    He says, "the ash will never fall to the ground as long as there is any air." (Yet he's picking it up OFF THE GROUND!?)

    • @jonathanbush6197
      @jonathanbush6197 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      He misspoke. One mechanism that put the ash on the ground was rain. He was simply pointing out why the ash spread as far around the world as it did.

    • @michaelpond813
      @michaelpond813 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The years of trump in office much worse. We can still smell the stinch

    • @DrakikleidiLeia
      @DrakikleidiLeia 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@michaelpond813 why here? Not now please. Ur prob a bot. Have a good day.

    • @saltykraken9471
      @saltykraken9471 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@michaelpond813 yeah the new guy is such an improvement.

    • @frozenrogue8970
      @frozenrogue8970 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@michaelpond813Yes the traitor in the office we have right now is much better 🤔 the whole world laughing at America now but when Trump was in the office they respected Him.
      Check fact, not cnn propaganda and you will be so surprised.

  • @mfknkaren
    @mfknkaren 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The cc is A1. 😂😂😂😂 descriptions on point 😂 whoever did this THANK YOU! not even 1 minute in and you can tell its a passion 🫡

  • @coryshaw7810
    @coryshaw7810 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    20:36 when the cow kicks the other cow 🤣🤣🤣

  • @IHateThisHandleSystem
    @IHateThisHandleSystem 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    536 AD Was The Worst Year To Be Alive
    2023 is going to be like... "hold my beer".

    • @aspenrebel
      @aspenrebel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      In 536 it was "hold my mutton",

  • @margakat
    @margakat ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It makes me nuts that they compare these explosions to nuclear bombs without discussing the difference because of radiation. Life sucked in the 6th century, but people didn't die of radiation poisoning. Dying of radiation poisoning is horrible.

  • @mentestnotdaniel685
    @mentestnotdaniel685 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great information.

  • @user-ui7jw8ow4f
    @user-ui7jw8ow4f 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent documentary

  • @johnwhite1534
    @johnwhite1534 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I feel like nature is an often underappreciated political force

  • @TennesseeSaint
    @TennesseeSaint 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    If such an event would occur, wouldn’t it be in the interest of all nations be to somehow filter the atmosphere on a large scale, rather than to just wait for the catastrophic results to run its course? Surely such an effort would bring the world together rather than to tear it apart yet again. Perhaps strategically placed filtration locations near known volcanic hotspots, could mitigate an initial spread of ash, etc. It seems like our world has started to seek solutions for a possible future asteroid strike. Why not become more proactive about a much more likely event such as this?

    • @mikekahl5609
      @mikekahl5609 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      With in 3 days the stores would be empty and people would start killing each other for any scraps that could be found. 90% of the world population will die before the sky clears. And now days we are worried about cow farts.

    • @truthsocialmedia
      @truthsocialmedia 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      2 billion nuclear bombs is something humans just cannot effect a substantial change on. were just ants on a rock. and if nature says, i'm gonna blow up the world for 15 years, there is not much that can be done.

    • @Polisciandfries
      @Polisciandfries 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      The fuss people kicked up at covering their nose and mouth in public...imagine trying to orchestrate a global volcano response

    • @truthsocialmedia
      @truthsocialmedia 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Polisciandfries if people were actually dropping like flies, it would have been more urgent. my friggin lord, 100 year old's survived covid. its like this was all orchestrated for a "great reset"

    • @tstoof
      @tstoof 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I don't think it would work if we put the filtration systems near the hotspot, because they'd be surely destroyed during the blast. However, it does make sense to at least try to look into the possibility of such systems. If it could work it might prove vital to our survival.

  • @VHSterror
    @VHSterror ปีที่แล้ว +1

    fascinating documentary and it does a great job showcasing how fragile civilizations can be and just the overall helplessness

  • @0nlyRemaining
    @0nlyRemaining ปีที่แล้ว +1

    3:40 the visual effects guy really spending all his time on 3d rocks, rather than the actual effect lol