Climate Apocalypse (TRIH ep 313)
1760 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook speak with historian Peter Frankopan about the long relationship between climate (and the wider natural world) and human history. Using examples from the Curse of Akkad (~2250 BC) through the Roman Warm Period, the Justinianic Plague (6th century), volcanic episodes such as Santorini and Tambora, the Little Ice Age and the Industrial Revolution, Frankopan argues that climate and environmental shifts have repeatedly reshaped societies — sometimes trigger...
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Around 1760
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- US Constitution (1787)