03-30-2004, 10:35 AM
Thanks Vort.<br>
And indeed no mini ice-age. What surprises me with Richardot's description is that he talks about a colder climate, then goes on to describe phenomena associated --at least today-- with a warming up of the climate, greenhouse effect type of thing.<br>
Do we have a weather person out here?<br>
Gregg, I agree with the mid-second C.AD watershed date, but there was also a "plague" in the mid third C.AD and it seems that one is even less documented than the great plague of Marcus Aurelius' times. Do you have anything on that one?<br>
It turns out more and more that the "great invasions" were triggered by a great number of events, not by a single one, namely the westwards progression of the Huns, pushing the Goths and so on.<br>
But the result was the very well known appearance of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: War, Famin, Pestilence and Death.<br>
That one always rides in last, the question is, which one of the three others rode in first on the Rhine frontier, around 250 AD? <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=antoninuslucretius@romanarmytalk>Antoninus Lucretius</A> <IMG HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=10 SRC="http://lucretius.homestead.com/files/Cesar_triste.jpg" BORDER=0> at: 3/30/04 12:56 pm<br></i>
And indeed no mini ice-age. What surprises me with Richardot's description is that he talks about a colder climate, then goes on to describe phenomena associated --at least today-- with a warming up of the climate, greenhouse effect type of thing.<br>
Do we have a weather person out here?<br>
Gregg, I agree with the mid-second C.AD watershed date, but there was also a "plague" in the mid third C.AD and it seems that one is even less documented than the great plague of Marcus Aurelius' times. Do you have anything on that one?<br>
It turns out more and more that the "great invasions" were triggered by a great number of events, not by a single one, namely the westwards progression of the Huns, pushing the Goths and so on.<br>
But the result was the very well known appearance of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: War, Famin, Pestilence and Death.<br>
That one always rides in last, the question is, which one of the three others rode in first on the Rhine frontier, around 250 AD? <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=antoninuslucretius@romanarmytalk>Antoninus Lucretius</A> <IMG HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=10 SRC="http://lucretius.homestead.com/files/Cesar_triste.jpg" BORDER=0> at: 3/30/04 12:56 pm<br></i>
