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Worst year in human history

25.11.2018

Mike McCormick, a researcher at Harvard University, notes that the year 536 can be considered the most terrible period that mankind has experienced.

On a summer day, fog descended on European territory, the Middle East and some regions of Asia, due to which the light was replaced by darkness. For about a year, people lived without sunlight, the average temperature dropped by 2,5 ° C. All these factors led to the fact that all plants died, people and animals did not have anything to eat.

A few years after the earth was enveloped in darkness, people began to massively overcome the plague, which hastened the collapse of the Roman Empire. For some reason, the dark ages are not mentioned in textbooks, they are not talked about in schools and universities when studying world history.

Recently, samples of the Swiss glacier obtained by McCormick and Paul Mayevsky have clarified the situation in 536. As it turned out, the darkness came because of the eruption of the Icelandic volcano, moreover, repeated. The ash spread throughout the Northern Hemisphere.

Scientists plan to study a volcano in Iceland in order to know at least the approximate time of a new eruption. According to experts, 536 was the most critical year. Scientists determine the level of stagnation by the amount of lead in the air for a given year. Silver was mined from lead by melting down the material.

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