Major disaster

Author: David Keys
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Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Features: This book, based on extensive research, describes how a mysterious catastrophe 1,500 years ago changed the course of human history. It reveals to us: how a global mystery disaster unleashed a terrifying century; how Rome's insatiable greed for ivory led to a plague that claimed the lives of half the population in the Mediterranean; how the collapse of the world's greatest ancient dam paved the way for the birth of Islam; how a mysterious yellow dust caused China to regress into a state of cannibalism; how a Mayan king launched a "cosmic war" with the help of Venus; and how a South American civilization used human remains to create life-sized wooden dolls. That mysterious catastrophe witnessed the final days of the great ancient cities, the decline of ancient Persia, and the replacement of the Roman Empire by the Byzantine Empire.