The Dark Ages
I am in Sylacauga, Alabama, The Marble City, town from where the white stone for the Washington Monument was quarried, also hometown of Jim Nabors. My Holiday Inn express is on the Jim Nabors Highway or I-280. Tomorrow I continue in my quest to remain the supplier of a critical raw material, a sale much to profitable to Kelldog, as a raw material supplier. Anyhow on with the story. After checking in and obtaining the neccesary hotel evening accoutrements, I settled into a National Geographic TV program entitled, "The Dark Ages". It started with a hypothesis that the time period we refer to as The dark ages around 500-600 AD were in fact dark days.
Historical writings from at least 12 different locations in the world all report a period of time lasting 18 months to 2 years when there were dramatic climate changes and what is reported as a dimming of the sun and shortening of the days and cold wave. This climate change around 550 AD resulted in recorded major crop failures in western Europe and warring and tumultuous times for the starving peoples from Ireland to Italy. Chinese writings report a dimming of the sun and the belief that the sun had lost its power to never regain again. The Japanese emporer at the time reports the uselessness of gold and pearls when the masses starve at his doorstep. St. John of Ephesius writes of a global event like one never seen before that involves the sun and the earths climate. These writings all coincide in the 500-600 AD period.
The connection was made to recent geological evidence of a violent and massive explosion originating at the Volcano Krakatoa. Krakatoa is situated atop the world most active volcanic eruption activity in recorded history. It has destroyed itself and rebuilt itself through massive eruptions over the millenia. The geologic evidence presented investigated a cliffside on one the barrier islands to Krakatoa. Layer upon layer of sediment along with carbon dating detail a history back to at least 6600 BC and the eruptions since. Strong evidence of the connection is a layer of sediment hugely dissproportionate to the other in the time frame of 500-600 AD. This sediment shows an explosion that theoretically was so big it could have spewed enough material and emissions into earths atmosphere to create what we call "The Dark Ages". Now you know the whole story.
Historical writings from at least 12 different locations in the world all report a period of time lasting 18 months to 2 years when there were dramatic climate changes and what is reported as a dimming of the sun and shortening of the days and cold wave. This climate change around 550 AD resulted in recorded major crop failures in western Europe and warring and tumultuous times for the starving peoples from Ireland to Italy. Chinese writings report a dimming of the sun and the belief that the sun had lost its power to never regain again. The Japanese emporer at the time reports the uselessness of gold and pearls when the masses starve at his doorstep. St. John of Ephesius writes of a global event like one never seen before that involves the sun and the earths climate. These writings all coincide in the 500-600 AD period.
The connection was made to recent geological evidence of a violent and massive explosion originating at the Volcano Krakatoa. Krakatoa is situated atop the world most active volcanic eruption activity in recorded history. It has destroyed itself and rebuilt itself through massive eruptions over the millenia. The geologic evidence presented investigated a cliffside on one the barrier islands to Krakatoa. Layer upon layer of sediment along with carbon dating detail a history back to at least 6600 BC and the eruptions since. Strong evidence of the connection is a layer of sediment hugely dissproportionate to the other in the time frame of 500-600 AD. This sediment shows an explosion that theoretically was so big it could have spewed enough material and emissions into earths atmosphere to create what we call "The Dark Ages". Now you know the whole story.
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Amazing stuff.
I read the book "Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded" by Simon Winchester a few years ago. It tells the story of the legendary explosion of 1883. The eruption, which obliterated the island of Krakatoa, threw something like 4 cubic miles of earth into the atmosphere, and darkened skies and dropped temperatures worldwide for months.
The explosion was so loud it was heard over 3000 miles away, and is thought to be the loudest sound heard by man.
The great tragedy of Krakatoa, though, were the Tsunamis that killed 40,000 people in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, areas that were less than a tenth as populated as they are today.
Winchester propagates the idea that the physical, emotional and spiritual devastation from the blast and its subsequent tsunamis led directly to the rise of radical Islam in the region (a area that had previously been predominantly Hindu), and was thus an indirect cause behind the terrorist bombings in Bali in 2002.
I remember as a kid, watching a movie about the explosion called "Krakatoa, East of Java." To give you a sense of the authenticity of this production, one need only note the small fact that Krakatoa is actually WEST of Java.
I say "is..west of Java," because after disappearing in 1883, the island reappeared in 1927, following another explosion. The new island, named Anak Krakatau ("Child of Krakatoa"), has grown at an average rate of five inches per week since its reappearance and is increasingly volcanically active.
By the way, Winchester pinpoints the explosion discussed in your documentary to the year 535.
More importantly, did Kelldog land the big deal?
8 Truckloads sold, mission complete.
You should have heard the explosion that erupted under the bed covers this morning after my night of beer drinking.
Truly thunderous.
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