PREVIEW: From a two hour conversation tonight with Professor Peter Frankopan re how natural disasters (floods, storms, earthquakes, meteors, volcanoes, pandemics) alter the direction of human endeavor: here two examples: Thera in 1600 BCE, altering smallp

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PREVIEW: From a two hour conversation tonight with Professor Peter Frankopan re how natural disasters (floods, storms, earthquakes, meteors, volcanoes, pandemics) alter the direction of human endeavor: here two examples: Thera in 1600 BCE, altering smallpox, and an Iceland volcano in 44 BCE damaging Egyptian cropand Cleopatra's authority.  More of this later

 The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan  (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Transformed-Untold-History/dp/0525659161/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

1917 Theda Bara as Cleopatra.


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