Re:Ancient Rome’s Collapse Is Written into Arctic Ice
by rossdavidh on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @10:00AM
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Cool analysis inspired by this article, comparing the ice lead data to pre-existing (and independently collected) data on building of temples: http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/history-is-a-quantitati...
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Re:Ancient Rome’s Collapse Is Written into Arctic Ice
by yk on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @12:14PM
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From eyeballing the second graph we see, that lead production (taken as a proxy for economic activity) spikes shortly after a maximum in temple building, as any virtuous Roman would expect, temple building pleases the gods, who then grant the favor of more economic activity.