The Volcanic Winter Of 536 AD Explained | Catastrophe

Researchers have now discovered that in 535 and 536 AD, a climatic cataclysm wreaked havoc on the world. Could a violent volcanic eruption of Krakatoa have caused two years of darkness, famine, drought and disease? In this second and final episode, we ponder whether this really was the worst time to be alive and learn how the catastrophe shaped the world as we know it.
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[@lyas6150]

🥏 Indeed it came from Ethiopia whom the King was ruling over it to yemen went one day with his army and his Elephants to destroy the Kaaba of Mekah. The Coran describes how God destroy this king and his army by a rain of stones thrown over them by huge Ababel birds. 👝 Read the Elephant' Chapter in the Quran ! 🥏🥏🥏 I wonder how (or why) did you miss with the event that took place in 535 ad in Arabia when the king Abraha came with a huge military and elephants to destroy the Kaaba of Mekah !? This event is in the Quran. There's a chapter consecrated to that event that have been descended from God in the Quran. The Chapter is callet The Elephant Surat. It detailed exactly what happened and the reasons that caused the event. 535 ad was the year the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his household) was born. A second event occured also after the first one known by Rain of Stone, it was the night the Prophete was born a huge lights in the sky enlightened the earth from Arabia to Syria until Persia ! The book of Persia King recorded it and records have been found in Syria as well. 👝👝👝 You should also ask about the world wide event or bloody rain that took place from Irak few decades after that of 535 ad. For this you should go to Irak pricesly in Karbalaa. And this event is recorded in the Great Britain Museum. I've read it my self in the GB Musuem on line❗

[@mik823]

Are you going to reference your research data?? How can I take your perspective seriously if you don't publish your research data?

[@LechLecha893]

@@mik823 he did. Chapter and verse. Qu’ran, elephant story. It’s up to everyone else to test his cite. & I’m sure if you bothered, even with Questia, you could find articles ripping the story to shreds or shoring it up.

[@mik823]

@@LechLecha893 that's all good but he needs to list his research data for all his claims and not just mention some, for example his videos on the Vikings and Slavs are complete rubbish and no references s at all and that's my main gripe with this guy. I don't have much interest in his other videos. I post these comments to keep on his case and hold him accountable. KZbin is full of wanna be historians who literally plagiarize each other's content word for word without doing their own research to corroborate the data. information before they make videos

[@endtimeslips4660]

BE TRUTHFULLY and BE HONEST. what do you think make it become the worst time for man to live? because it was PAPACY about reign their power. Clovis war is the beginning of all saint Persecution. a beast speak in Daniel perform their dancing. they drunk with Saint Blood and torture them by order of the antichrist "POPE"

[@sublime090909]

Props to the cameraman for capturing all this footage during such a horrible year.

[@kilderok]

So good of us to invent the camera before the useless cotton gin. Surely the best of all time

[@stephanieguile9072]

HA HA HA!!!!😂🤣 Good one!! Luv it!!

[@brucematzen4678]

Seriously??? A camera in 536 c. e. Amazing.😢

[@stephanieguile9072]

@@brucematzen4678 They were smarter than we thought!!!!🤣

[@karencristobal4999]

Well done

[@JeantheSecond]

All of this must have scared the bejesus out of the people of the time. Dimming sun, drought, plague. It must have seemed the literal end of the world.

[@aspenrebel]

Yes, It was really bad in Britain, that was the time of King Arthur.

[@GT380man]

For many millions of people, it was the end. I recall reading estimates of population loss in Europe, which was a third. Nothing like this has ever happened before.

[@sancho8521]

@@GT380man ...30% also in the 14th century during the Bubonic Plague. This book I read said a third of Europe died. "Bring out your dead!" Monty Python

[@GottaWannaDance]

@@GT380man There was also the great flood; this was the one Noah was building a big boat for. This was the same one to put all the animals of the world in. Add to that the food for every animal, bird, insect, not to mention some humans who weren't related so as to repopulate the planet.

[@jrchickenbone]

now imagine if everyone had access to the internet and a self entitled opinion lol, i bet the churches were booming though

[@TalkingHands308]

Man, I miss when channels on tv like History or Discovery Channel would have documentaries like this one...

[@Jewelstravel]

Right?! Miss those days

[@enriquegarza3127]

Me too. Mail Call, Man Moment Machine, Tales of the Gun, Aftermath: Population Zero. They set the foundation for my love of learning. And who can forget the old National Geographic theme :)

[@55robinwood]

Yep. Now the history channel.8s stupid.

[@susieschilling4009]

I got rid of cable over a decade ago. Complete rip off to say the very least.

[@TalkingHands308]

@@enriquegarza3127 Right? Even if they weren't 100% accurate sometimes, it at least sparks interest and sets that mood of learning new things. Now-a-days the only documentaries there are have some agenda to push and it's annoying.

[@edgregory1]

History really puts our existence into perspective. So many lives cut brutally short. Makes my problems seem bearable.

[@alexclo5901]

I like to remind myself even though my job is akin to wage slavery, I didn't have to build the pyramids

[@BeanieThe13th]

Yes, I offten try to remind myself that things can always be much worse.

[@michellejackson1096]

Ok

[@ACryin_Shame]

Ha ha. Needing a pick me up about today's world brought me here. 'The worst year to be alive' yep exactly what I am looking for

[@norajake3790]

It also validates our anxieties because we genetically come from these survivors

[@ItIsJustJudy]

I am always amazed at what our ancestors survived.

[@EricSepulveda]

I love my pets too. ♥️

[@DinoCism]

I'm horrified at what our descendants will have to survive...

[@scottshoe842]

And now boys are girls.

[@robertbiolsi9815]

Most didn't

[@deeprollingriver5820]

One day our descendants will marvel at what we had to go through.

[@llSuperSnivyll]

It puts into dimension how 'privileged' we are right now to actually know what's going on. Meanwhile, you could be a random Roman citizen at Ravenna and see the sky's gone dark, that the summer feels cold and that there's a sudden food shortage, with no knowledge that it's all caused by the eruption of a volcano that is located in a land you don't even know exists.

[@finalflowerchild]

Ravenna has a beautiful early church.

[@llSuperSnivyll]

@@EverythingLvl We are priviledged in that we get to know WHY there's a crisis. Meanwhile, even the richest of citizens would not know that everything went downhill because of a volcano eruption in another continent.

[@xiphactinusaudax1045]

Ravenna wasn't in Rome during 536...IDK if you're talking about a different event

[@histguy101]

@@xiphactinusaudax1045 Sure it was. It was the capital of Italy.

[@tundrance]

@@EverythingLvl what does that even mean??

[@jabronis33]

During this time, the Eastern Roman empire was fighting with the Sassanid empire in Persia. An emissary went to Syria, when they noticed everyone getting sick. He went back and told the king to call off the invasion.

[@iwlaequitas7897]

Conquering the world in self defense.

[@InOppositiontotheNewWorldOrder]

According to my research: The 'Eternal Peace Agreement', ending the war between Sassanid Persia and the Eastern Roman Empire, was signed in 532 AD.

[@FlaviusMaximus1967]

@@iwlaequitas7897 Rome conquered the world in a series of self defensive wars! USA went into Iraq in self defense. Russia went into Ukraine in self defense. You really have to wonder who really believes these wars of aggression are "self defense".....fools???

[@iwlaequitas7897]

@@FlaviusMaximus1967 Do you ever listen to Dan Carlin hardcore history? Listen to the Gaulic Holocaust. It explains Rome's "defensive" wars in great detail. Edit: Celtic Holocaust sorry I got the title wrong

[@InOppositiontotheNewWorldOrder]

@@FlaviusMaximus1967 The same people that get their education from the Babylonian Babysitter.

[@Emanonerewhon]

Watching this, one can’t help but marvel at what an incredibly complex world we live in, and especially at what a close-run thing civilization truly is. At any moment, natural forces beyond our control can simply turn the page on humankind as we know it. It’s just remarkable.

[@jamesdagiantpeach]

You're absolutely right. It just shows how insignificant we really are in the grand scheme of how the physical world really works.

[@mariusmatei2946]

Yep, it's the (fragile system of) "threads" that binds (our) modern world (together), and enables (our modern) life (routines) to run smoothly; break one "thread", and the entire interconnected, and sophisticated (but delicate) system of "threads" will collapse (I must credit the film "Threads" for that analogy/metaphor)!!

[@halnogaies1256]

So... We're not the gods we thought we were, eh?

[@youtubesucks5080]

You are thinking like a medieval peasant. We have the means to alter nature herself, but people and their false beliefs keep foiling us. You can't eat half the vegetables/fruits in the store if you are against man-adjusted-produce. We did GMO before GMO was even a thing. it's called selective breeding. If I were you I'd be much more scared of getting thrown in a gulag by rabid ignorant naive antifa thugs.

[@user-qf7ud5de9h]

The earth's polarity is currently reversing. Polar north is off by 300 miles now, where before that it was only off by 30 miles.

[@ChairmanMeow1]

You think "Yea, well 2022 wasn't nice" then you watch something like this and remember how good you have it

[@deeprollingriver5820]

I’m looking at my dog and realized her ancestors survived this also.

[@sauviel6296]

Im looking at my dog and realized I'm really hungry right now

[@KimiHayashi]

@@sauviel6296 I'm looking at you and I realized my dog is hungry right now

[@phyllojoe5346]

Given covid, I think the world would cope with a worldwide incident quite poorly

[@jefffitztight5784]

@The Science of Violence what do you mean trade spreads germs?? that's commie science

[@annbuena5710]

@The Science of Violence ur username is genius ngl

[@dklee.01]

yeah i was gonna say 😭

[@dklee.01]

@Savage Cock so sad but true

[@flytink1]

If we ever experience the equivalent of a nuclear winter, we’re fucked. We’d have to really step up food production by growing things indoors with UV lighting. But even doing that wouldn’t be able to compensate for fields and fields of the agriculture cultivated on an industrial scale?! Food and water shortages would be inevitable. We have de-salinization to combat severe drought, but we probably wouldn’t be able to produce enough water to compensate.

[@dukeandika3292]

I'm from Indonesia. This video gimme answer why our historic notes about our ancient kingdoms was missing between 6-8 Century. In 5th century several ancients kingdoms were thriving during Indonesian archipelago like Kingdom of Kutai and Tarumanegara . Without clear reason, all of those ancient notes were missing at 6 th century.

[@M0rmagil]

That would seem like a pretty good explanation. Being in the immediate vicinity of such an event would make life very difficult indeed. 😕

[@55robinwood]

Of course it would have been even worse where you are. A killer.

[@BigBangTheoryIsALie]

Because youre a duke now

[@MrBigRiceBoy]

The void century

[@___queueue7707]

What kind of notes? Chinese notes?

[@susanmorgan8833]

When Mt. St. Helens erupted, a relative in Portland sent us a vial of the resultant ash that she'd scraped off foliage in her yard. It was unbelievably fine, and it was easy to see how the wind could carry it great distances.

[@enlightenedhummingbird4764]

I love that! I was in elementary school in IL, and my Grandmother lived in Portland. She sent us a vial of ash, too! I took it for show and tell, and I was the coolest kid that day! 😁 (That may be the only positive that came out of the whole situation...) 😕

[@VvpandoravV]

We were scraping about 1” of ash off our windshields here in Houston about a week after she erupted that year. Took about 3 weeks for the wind to change for it to die down. Given the choice I’d rather scrape snow ✌️

[@jamesmoore3694]

i was in portland watching the grateful dead play. this was the night st helens blew out the lava dome. a steady ash fall at 11 pm. smiles from mt hood

[@michellecardenas6072]

@@enlightenedhummingbird4764 omg, that is too crazy...i had a friend that did the same thing for her show n tell at school in CA. I guess it was the happening thing at that time.

[@christopherwillows5515]

@@MintRanch now that is perspective. Crazy to think it extended that far

[@reds1325]

Can't be worse then my parents walking 20 miles barefoot in their grandparents hand me downs in a snow storm to school back in their day.

[@kilderok]

Tommy Pickles grandpa? Is that you?

[@Mavendow]

I read the sound of Krakatoa's eruption in 1883 created a concussive shockwave circled the globe four times. The ocean was measured to rise and fall in lockstep with the blast. Some within a 50km radius might've died just from the wave of air impacting their body. And that was calculated at only 13,000x hiroshima. 2,000,000,000x? I can't even imagine an eruption that size.

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

Im sure someone was close enough to die from it there had to be

[@lindianisyafira6706]

It is true all over my country indonesia and so hawaii dark for several moment

[@eithnemelee2997]

That same shockwave was powerful enough to rupture the eardrums of all the sailors on a ship that was almost 50km away from the epicenter of the explosion. Crazy stuff to think about.

[@scipiorattikanus5522]

I was thinking that when I heard 2,000,000,000 times. I thought to myself.. "Damn, that's a miscalculation."

[@meridien52681]

The Toba event was WAY worse. The supposedly, it was the loudest sound heard on earth.

[@shutthefrontdoor733]

Why is history so much more interesting the older you get? I am always fascinated by so many great stories told about the past. Thank you for a really well done documentary

[@Daelyah]

Perhaps because, the older we get, the more we must face uncertain futures, and therefore the more we look to the past for guidance and inspiration.

[@pjames4931]

when we are young we are still discovering the modern area. it’s something we still needed to discover.

[@dustinvanwinkle5078]

Personally I was way more interested in history when I was younger. As I've gotten older I've cared less and less since civilization doesn't ever seem to learn it's lessons lol

[@shutthefrontdoor733]

@@dustinvanwinkle5078 I can respect this response and sort of agree with you but I still find it fascinating the way they lived and how the got through tough times

[@dustinvanwinkle5078]

@@shutthefrontdoor733 for sure same here. I still love history I just tend to do my own deep dives these days. I stopped watching shows ect many many years ago so it's mostly reading or podcasts for me.

[@SynthD]

It never ceases to amaze me that my ancestors survived all of history.

[@tarabooartarmy3654]

Yeah, and survival of the fittest somehow led to us -- a few generations of Karens and Tik Tokers.

[@StarOnTheWater]

If you count reproduction as survival, yes.

[@deandeann1541]

Ilopango volcano in El Salvador erupted in 535 AD - some believe this was responsible for the collapse of Teotihuacan. I'm sure the eruption in 536 AD at Krakatao did not help things for them.

[@steffenritter7497]

Indeed, I saw a video on this eruption about a year ago. I haven't been able to find it, since.

[@55robinwood]

Experts are saying that these 2 caused the problem

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

what Jack would call a double event

[@aron1332]

The Ilopango theory is already disproven (it erupted a century earlier) and Krakatoa neither erupted in 536 (there is an eruption in 540).

[@Lucky_Chase]

Well! No need for horror movies when you have actual history to look at.

[@byronharano2391]

Well said

[@karenandrews4224]

Or evolution- Here (on earth) be monsters (dinosaurs et Al)

[@byronharano2391]

@@karenandrews4224 Thunder-lizards are cool.

[@dunjahornung3084]

Life always writes the best stories.

[@aliz.5305]

When you think about how often people die in the present day (which is A LOT) and how humans used to die even more often for as long as we've existed, it starts to become clear we're literally just another life form on this planet that isn't tougher or more special than ants or fungus. And as a human who tends to think of humans in general as being extra special, it's quite sobering to come to this realization.

[@catboynestormakhno2694]

true, we have only recently begun our reconstruction of the world to benefit our needs in such explosive manners as we have had within these last hundred years, we stand upon the edge of great disasters and great development

[@literallynothingatall8175]

It makes me think that the meaning of life is that there isn’t one. Everything is just a series of events leading to everything right now, it’s crazy to think how humans have evolved from sleeping on the ground to sleeping in 10 - 40 story apartments with high quality beds, TV, phones, and more.

[@christinapaterno5585]

You have the ability to reason, and to be conscious, and a responsibility to care for the creatures and plants that are not. Saying we are the same is incorrect.

[@aliz.5305]

​@@christinapaterno5585 I believe you took my statement about being the same too literally. I am aware that we have self awareness and reasoning skills (although these same traits have been found in other mammals). In the grand scheme of things, humans aren't extra special. We are here playing the same game of survival just like every other living organism. Take away civilization and we're one meal away from being ruthless animals again.

[@catherineadair9078]

Humans are extra-special.

[@abbycelella4311]

watching post mental breakdown to remind myself how lucky i am to just sit in bed and eat berries i didn’t even have to pick

[@Lora-G]

I would never want to live before the invention of general anesthesia ❣️‼️

[@Fido-vm9zi]

I'd like to thank my ancestors for surviving. I didn't live in ancient times of famine, but something inside me makes me grateful for everything. Small things, such as a tomato or piece of fruit.

[@annastinehammersdottir1290]

We are here by fateful, wonderful randomness and yet we are giving it away.

[@luciavaughan9464]

The amount of combined scientific research in this video is absolutely insane.

[@brocknspectre1221]

I’m surprised they didn’t talk about the 1815 eruption of mount Tambora. It’s still remembered as the year without a summer or "Eighteen-hundred and froze to death"

[@blue-cg8uz]

The Irish famine was also because a volcanic eruption which was because altered weather from the ash in atmosphere. People who study tree rings can tell this also. They say violins built from the wood of those times made the best violins because the extra density in rings.

[@bruzote]

@@blue-cg8uz - I am sorry you were told that. It is nonsense. As a properly educated physicist and meteorologist, I would love to know what research source you've read and how it was peer-reviewed. The Irish Potato Famine had multiple causes. First and foremost, the Irish were horribly oppressed by the British, arguably worse than slaves(!). Yes, that's true. The British did not provide food or any care at all for the Irish, unlike slave owners who would at least keep their valuable slaves alive to keep them working! The British didn't let the Irish even live in cities or hold a trade, let alone own the land. The British took that. They destroyed the ability of the Irish to handle a famine. In fact, records suggest Irish food exports went UP during (was the first year?) of the famine. The British were unbelievably cruel to the Irish. The second reason is a fungus, called a blight, that infected the Irish potato crops. This was a huge problem, particularly since Ireland had a monoculture of potatoes, and no alternative varieties were being grown, let alone a variety that was fungus-resistance. Please try to list the source you had for your claim. I would love to read what quantifiable research some "scientists" used to disregard both the blight and the British oppression when it comes to the causes of the Great Hunger. I am not saying weather was not affected, but people round the world didn't experience the Great Hunger. Ireland did. It was not due to a volcano, and their INCREASED food exports were not possible if a volcano could have such a horrific impact on food the citizens needed to grow for themselves instead of exporting (or using as feed for animal meat exports).

[@bweaver760]

The Victorian age of the 1800’s (19th century) was somewhat of a semi-ice age in the climate of the world.

[@bweaver760]

@@bruzote So, you are saying that political control and the power structures of a country has a much bigger impact on food sources and famine in the human condition. Then the growth in corruption of the ruling class is the biggest impact in the demise of human civilization! We are living in such corruption at this time in the USA. Be prepared for more food shortages in the USA, due to corrupted government controls!

[@multibasking]

@@bruzote you’re not properly educated if you think british treatment of the irish is worse let alone comparable to chattel slavery.

[@MsKittyGirl2010]

Only a matter of time before a mega volcano erupts again. Scary to think about it really.

[@tisbutascratch2045]

Yes but hopefully if it does, we'll be better prepared for it with modern technology and sciences.

[@ossiehalvorson7702]

@@tisbutascratch2045 We have WAY too many people to feed, and technology has actually done more to make us poor at surviving in times of global crisis. There's no way we can keep up if this happens again. The people who are either well off and/or skilled survivalists will mostly be okay, and the people who aren't will mostly die. The majority of people on Earth, especially in first world countries, fall in the latter category.

[@MsKawaiichii]

@@tisbutascratch2045 **looks at how current disasters are being managed** (nervous laughter)

[@mikekahl5609]

@@tisbutascratch2045 better prepared? Modern humans are so lazy they can't survive if it snows for 3 days or they lose phone signal.

[@honeydew1678]

@@mikekahl5609 when it comes to life or death, we move quick. trust me.

[@TypeOneg]

It's scary and weird to think about how most of us with European heritage are only here by the sheer dumb luck and immunity genetics that allowed us through the eye of that needle to the future.

[@Patrick3183]

modern Europeans did not originate in Europe

[@michaelsteane9926]

To all those people commenting about 2020 etc. being worse. Appreciate the wonders we now live among. These are the best times ever. For those who don't love to whinge.

[@nightfightsday]

wrong we're in dark times, you must live in a fucking bubble

[@johnhenry7861]

@@nightfightsday our quality of life is insanely better than the lives of people that lived during the 6th century. Be grateful you’re watching KZbin instead of starving to death or being sold into slavery

[@bringer-of-change]

Yeah. The bad things happening now are man made problems. Things that could be stopped by those who have the know how and the resolve. Cant just top volcanoes from going off though. Cant just stop nature.

[@nightfightsday]

@@johnhenry7861 don't fuckin preach to me, I know how bad the world is now...it's completely corrupted by evil humans who are self-absorbed, psychotic, and greedy..suffering is everywhere in the world. You have murder, torture, rape, pollution, and destruction of our natural resources has been taking place...we shit where we eat and we don't give a fuck..we have sex trafficking, and slavery still, people are starving in the world, many people are trapped in terrible countries with shitty governments such as China, North Korea, and even Russia, we're on the brink of ww3 and you act like the world is made of rainbows and pussies..pull your head out of your ass and look beyond your nose and look at the bigger picture here

[@nightfightsday]

@@bringer-of-change yeah man-made problems that have been going on since Sumer the shit is never going to stop until we kill ourselves, which we probably will or like you said nature gets involved and swats us like the flies we are

[@number1enemyoftheuseless985]

What is amazing is that someone is still alive to account for what happened back then. Crazy...

[@IsengardMordor]

That would have been awesome

[@kilderok]

Surely the most alive of all time

[@milktea4270]

The fact we’re all here today, knowing our ancestors were some of the few that survived, makes me think that we’re a bit lucky to exist

[@kilderok]

When your grandmother survived abortion and your mother needed a blood transfusion to survive birth, you know you're even luckier.

[@chiefswife1212]

C ertainly explains why we're all related on 23 and me!

[@gilknutson]

Keep in mind, some of the latest research indicates that humans were down to less than 2000 breeding pairs 900,000 years ago!!! That Genetic Bottleneck could have resulted in mankind’s extinction!!!…

[@gilknutson]

Keep in mind, over 90% or more of all species are extinct…..

[@juliac9080]

We're all here today because someone in our family tree in 536 wasn't a wimp.

[@aspenrebel]

I saw a documentary one time about AIDS as well as plagues in England. They found that if people had 2 of a certain gene or something they didn't get the plague, if they had one they got sick but then recovered, if they had none they got sick and died. So then they found out just same with AIDS because of 1 guy in the documentary was gay and he found out he could not get AIDS and die. Cause he had 2 of these gene things.

[@lestatangel]

So true.

[@aspenrebel]

@@Automedon2 Did you see it? I recall they talked all about plagues in Europe and England, why some people didn't die. I think gay guy was from SF, and he was wondering why he didn't have AIDS and die, when so many of his "friends" had AIDS or had died. He wondered if doctors had ever studied gay men who DID NOT get AIDS, rather than just studying those that did.

[@aspenrebel]

@@Automedon2 there u go

[@agentorange81]

Or a well stocked hoarder ,still eithers doing better than me

[@haroldthaf]

You gotta admire the dedication of the cameraman, pulling some sick panoramic shots and close-ups before it was cool.

[@fullscorpion5285]

Hopefully these volcanos can learn to process their fiery anger instead of waiting until they blow their lids. Perhaps EMDR might relieve some of the pressure?

[@ocpofficialrep7026]

536 was a fantastic year. Loved it

[@tarabooartarmy3654]

10/10. Would die again.

[@banguseater]

Me too. Great times. Cheers

[@scottbrandon6244]

The 1815 eruption in Indonesia caused global havoc. 1816 was described as the year without a summer. There were crop failures and snow storms in June through August in America.

[@Patrick3183]

This is about the 536 earthquake.

[@johnathonmullis4234]

I was living in Florida when mt. St. Helens erupted back around 1980. The sky stayed grey for months and ash rained down for weeks. I want to think we heard the explosion but it was so long ago. I heard from guys I later served in the Navy with who said they had ash cover the ships hundreds of miles out to sea in the Atlantic Ocean from that eruption. It’s easy to forget just how powerful Mother Nature is.

[@gloriarangott8803]

We should remember that "mother nature" has a very dark and volatile side😮

[@realessayog6947]

I remember reading about this year during undergrad in college... I'm not sure why? It's crazy how we kept things documented for so long right?

[@aspenrebel]

I have his book "Catastrophe". Very interesting but unfortunately he is unable to come up with any proof to support his theories and conclusions. Cuz such is so ellusive and difficult to find. But he's probably quite correct.

[@cathymarcello282]

They made a movie.. Krakatoa, East of Java…

[@aspenrebel]

@@cathymarcello282 who was in it? Bruce Willis?

[@cathymarcello282]

@@aspenrebel I’m pretty sure it was back in the 70s… don’t think Willis was around yet

[@cathymarcello282]

1968.. Diane Baker, Maximilian Schell, Sal Mineo

[@snickle1980]

😐Ok, but for at least one person back then, this was a really _GREAT year,_ ya know? I promise you that there was at least ONE son of a nobleman who partied throughout the entire year of 536...And he likely wrote to his uncle about it.

[@Patrick3183]

Was it you?

[@snickle1980]

@@Patrick3183 (rips off mask) No, it was old man Kruthers who ran the haunted amusement park!

[@jordanranks3180]

It’s true I’m the uncle

[@aubreel4576]

🤣

[@sebell69]

that would explain all those "underground" cities that are been found all over the place (that "nobody" seems to be able to explain why they are there)!!

[@delinquentinparadise]

Before Noah's flood towards the latter end of the ice age sea levels were some 75 meters lower than they are today. A huge number of city's are now under water. The ice age continues to to lose the ice from places such as Greenland, the North Pole, Antarctica and so on to this day. Which is caused by the entirely natural event of global warming. Sea levels continue to rise as they have for the last 20,000 years.

[@tealkerberus748]

Building underground works. Ash the people of Coober Pedy or the people of the hot bits of India and adjacent countries who has the better city. When it's routinely hotter than blood heat outdoors, underground is cool.

[@RaysofLight98]

Makes you really glad to live in a chaotic, but more connected, world.

[@GeeZeusJnrGTBond63]

Kra·ka·tau (krăk′ə-tou′, krä′kə-) or Kra·ka·to·a (-tō′ə) A volcanic island of Indonesia between Sumatra and Java. An explosive eruption in August 1883 destroyed most of the island and caused a tsunami that killed more than 36,000 people.

[@willmcgo8288]

For anyone who wondered like myself when this first aired, this looks to be from 1999 (MCMXCIX). Those big computer monitors were a hint to that.

[@moviestargf]

23 years ago

[@RayRay-cq5ky]

Wow! Climate change, pandemic, war and a global food shortage happening all at once? I can't even imagine.

[@lumberpilot]

It's paradoxical that the tower is the structure most in tact .You think of things toppling from the top down.

[@karenhodges7545]

Thank you. The detail and production are marvelous.

[@lindakay9552]

I live in Washington state. There's geological evidence of ash from other explosions effecting the climate here. There is Mt. Mazama ash in the ground here

[@onderozenc4470]

From Mc Kenzie volcano ?

[@thesteelworks8088]

Also Look into the scablands in Washington state great deluge of waters at unimaginable great floods

[@altheacraig2904]

I also live here. In Auburn. In my comment above I mentioned what I learned about the Yellowstone volcano and how I learned it. Where is the Krakatoa ash found? I'd like to have some. I have some of Mt. Saint Helens. To me all this is awesome! k

[@lindakay9552]

@@altheacraig2904 Professor Nick Zentner, at Central Washington University, is my geology Guru. I had to go back and listen to his videos to find the Lord of Lahars: Brian Atwater It's been so long since I watched their lectures, I mixed up two discoveries. Atwater was in Indonesia, when he discovered that a 1700 Japan tsunami was caused by a Juan de Fuca quake. He ALSO discovered Mt. Mazama ash (Crater Lake, OR) in the sand layers just off Washington coast. If you type into KZbin Nick Zentner, or Brian Atwater, you will find hundreds of hours of university lectures on Washington geology. 🤗😘

[@lindakay9552]

@@thesteelworks8088 one of my favorite subjects! 💜💙 I don't even have to try to imagine it. We have scientific proof of where the water level used to sit all around Wenatchee Valley At one time Saddlerock (in Wenatchee) was almost completely submerged.

[@gentlejuliet]

Every time they say Krakatoa, I imagine that one episode of SpongeBob where they’re superheroes 😭

[@kilderok]

Same lol no wonder Squidward just exploded.

[@Madmen604]

Imagine how fresh the water was, how clean the air, how lush the forests. Aside from the usual natural disasters...

[@jvcpaints]

This was good. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Thank you for posting it.

[@mariavilleda5086]

Somehow I ended up here and love it! Everyone needs to watch this. Really makes you think of our current times. History truly repeats itself

[@staleruudeidsvoll4645]

ME TO I LOVE IT:: thank you for beeing 2? be nice, all negative energy ends up same as positiv. and the 3 melts.. or?

[@maeghi]

I'm super glad to finally know the detailed differences between horsesh*t and bullsh*t

[@AgathaDrinksTea]

Dang that guy on the horse is a good looking fella...

[@RachealRichardson]

Exceptional research. Explains so many gaps in history...much will need to be re-written.

[@flugsven]

This apocalyptic video wasn't exactly what I needed these apocalyptic days.

[@jillcrowe2626]

This program tells us that we're all just fine. Are you fed and housed? I am. I also am a member of a church and we all phone and write to each other. I don't feel alone.

[@flugsven]

@@jillcrowe2626 ..until it ended with naming the vulcanos ready to pop off and send us to a new variant of year 536 with all the consequences. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@1ACL]

For some reason, it makes me feel better. Watching catastrophes instead of catastrophizing in my head.

[@altheacraig2904]

It has erupted much more than that! Because of plate tectonics the Yellowstone volcano was out in the Pacific Ocean long before it ended up in Wyoming. I learned this from Nick Zentner the geologist professor at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, WA.

[@ianworley8169]

Of course it has, but these are climatic changes brought about by volcanic activity, within recorded history. Not tectonic activity within geological time. A matter of changes happening within the last hundreds of years, rather than millenia or even millions of years.

[@JPaterson8942]

I like listening to Nick's lectures when I'm at work. They really give perspective of the geologic changes of the area.

[@aspenrebel]

Well who the hell decided to move it to Wy.?

[@jasonlambert5552]

@@aspenrebel Lovely in the spring, cheap rent.

[@blazegreen3013]

I saw the same show, LOL I've seen many of his videos, he's awesome when it comes to rocks and volcanos

[@rebeccaweil1]

Incredible . A great documentary.

[@zachary9925]

If this happened today, no doubt half the population would deny that volcanos even exist.

[@elduderino7725]

"We need to talk about how racism caused the eruption and the effects are largely felt by POC/LGBTQA folx."

[@zachary9925]

@@elduderino7725 Probably not the first part, but yes the second part would certainly happen.

[@ossiehalvorson7702]

@@zachary9925 Nah, people only worry about shit like that because our survival isn't immediately compromised, so they can afford to concern themselves with social issues like that. If this happens today, it'll take a few months tops, depending on how much food storage we have globally, before everyone turns against each other and we hit a new era of tribalism.

[@kierj9858]

@@elduderino7725 🤣🎯💯

[@toomanymarys7355]

More like they'd blame "fossil fuels" and "climate change" for it. Bill Nye literally blamed a tsunami on climate change not long ago on national TV. 🤣🤣🤣

[@taramarissaalmarri]

Really well organized and explained video 😁👍

[@HhhhgftrVvvvjjh]

Omy… such unsettling backgroundsounds… got the chills from that alone

[@drebarthelotte5712]

Wonderful video. Thank you 😊

[@Mc4est]

LOL I just love how the Krakatoa expert is simulating the eruption in a "Super Computer", and it looks like just a computer from 2000 in his bedroom..

[@MarkHallamNYC]

At 2:43 is the "supercomputer" he purportedly inputted the data to. 😂

[@bookmouse2719]

Obviously this was made quite a while ago. Get over it.

[@issstari954]

Very old video yes at the time that was a super computer

[@MarkHallamNYC]

@@issstari954 no, it wasn't. I had one in my living room and you bought them at Radio Shack or Walmart.

[@eighteenin78]

Video was released in 1999.

[@rambler5766]

Probably just the I/O terminal, not the actual computer.

[@olivemd]

Third time I’m watching this. His voice is so relaxing.

[@jonathanbuyno9461]

My kind of channel! Thanks for making these!

[@MrRodQ]

Knock on effect is basically chain reaction. And it's sad people can't identify knock on effects with our current world situation. We're going to need a compilation of world events from 2020 - 2030 for folks to understand we're in trouble brewing.

[@M0rmagil]

As Homer would say, “The worst year so far!”

[@danielwilliams2624]

Homer doesn't say that, Comic Book Guy does. You're not a real Simpson's fan😂 you should change your pic

[@NeutralGuyDoubleZero]

@@danielwilliams2624 Homer says it to Bart in the movie

[@thisisamandagoins]

This was a fantastic eye-opening video.

[@lindseyelliott7038]

Okay but they went off with the music on this. Feels ancient and gives you a sense of dread I love it,

[@nidhinjuvin]

greed is the actual plague

[@themedia1271]

Nobody: People in 536 AD: "OMG WORST YEAR EVER WHEN WILL THIS END!"

[@ericmonaco4509]

1,484 years later

[@Lifeinbelize]

Super interesting. Thank you

[@nuggitron]

I never knew about the correlation between plague and temperature. Interesting. Thanks.

[@raybrown8412]

2022 might put this to the test.

[@abby._]

Literally !

[@bobbijomeyers8428]

Why

[@SimpleLifeAlways81]

@@bobbijomeyers8428 climate change

[@verresmilliterres]

I'm sure politicians have already thought and planned quite thoroughly on how they will take care of themselves.

[@lauraleigh5562]

Very interesting and really enjoyed.

[@mfknkaren]

The cc is A1. 😂😂😂😂 descriptions on point 😂 whoever did this THANK YOU! not even 1 minute in and you can tell its a passion 🫡

[@livinginsoutheasttexas]

3AM ME: Tomorrow is going to suck KZbin:" Why the year 536 AD was the worst year to be alive " ME: oh ok then. I'll be right maybe. 2022: hello.

[@andrewjackson7758]

Biological warfare was another fun thing that people did by catapulting diseased corpses over city walls like the Tartars did to the Genoans in 1347, which for all intents and purposes were just as horrible as events 8 centuries before.

[@Mullet-ZubazPants]

That was in Kaffa (Crimea). The Genoese were there because it was a great trade market for slaves. Mongols would sell Christian slaves to the Genoese, who then sold them throughout the Muslim world

[@mentestnotdaniel685]

Great information.

[@artbyporschia]

2:01 I've never heard of the number two thousand million, now I see that it is a cultural difference I say 2 billion, you say two thousand million, tomato tomato ;) This video is so full of information to learn! Love it!

[@tconthepc_6958]

Yeah that threw me off, I had to rewind to make sure I heard him correctly

[@mitalichinmulgund8679]

I just finished watching another program on this channel showing how the dark ages were not dark, and that the anglo saxons did not invade, they came as settlers, that when the Roman rulers left, the people on the island continued to live the Roman style of life.

[@histguy101]

There's several ancient sources about Anglo-Saxon invaders, who were already raiding the coasts of Britain and Gaul in the 4th century.

[@t.j.payeur5331]

To cross the American Great Plains in wagons in the 1800s people had to exchange their horses for oxen because the horses would starve in the grasslands.

[@reavanante2160]

Thank you. The grade school story was that they were just not strong enough. Which I think is most likely. Truthfully the horse seems to be greatly affected by the soil composition grazing is found. Some soils are good, others are not. One of the reasons the plains were settled is that many areas were very fertile (equals good pasture) You don't find that everywhere.

[@an-tm3250]

Also understood it was an endurance decision. Annoys me when westerns show horses instead. A tough trek under any conditions.

[@slappy8941]

Oxen are better at pulling heavy loads slowly over long distances, and can live on rougher forage.

[@aspenrebel]

Wrong kind of horses. The Commanches had the right kind of horses.

[@i-never-look-at-replies-lol]

Take that you stupid horses!

[@VHSterror]

fascinating documentary and it does a great job showcasing how fragile civilizations can be and just the overall helplessness

[@user-ui7jw8ow4f]

Excellent documentary

[@coryshaw7810]

20:36 when the cow kicks the other cow 🤣🤣🤣

[@sancho8521]

...Earth has been through a lot. Imagine living anywhere on this planet; you were affected

[@User0000000000000004]

The computer animations in this deserve awards. NOW.

[@cosmic.chrysalis]

Damn 3:25 is insane! Totally imploded itself. Crazy force

[@Nosmaclear]

-The documentarians are really reaching with the Arthurian legend written 700 years later. "Could it be" statements are about as useful as "we couldn't find evidence, but who cares?"

[@aspenrebel]

"Legend"? How dare you!! That's my King you're talking about!!

[@toomanymarys7355]

TBF, Bede around 800 was the first to record the Arthurian legend, but obviously it grew.

[@margakat]

It makes me nuts that they compare these explosions to nuclear bombs without discussing the difference because of radiation. Life sucked in the 6th century, but people didn't die of radiation poisoning. Dying of radiation poisoning is horrible.

[@karenhodges7545]

Thank you. Makes sense.

[@carama3590]

Thank you for telling the truth.

[@ejwatcher5643]

I'm in Queensland, Australia and this year has already been shocking. Considering it's only March, we are feeling very tired already. Covid lock downs then massive floods, people here are really struggling.

[@pooryorick831]

Sorry to hear about the struggles in Australia. We had our share of crazy weather here in the US as well. Fires and floods in the west and heavy winds in the midwest. Our house flooded and our fence and roof sustained damage too. We never know what the coming year is going to hold.

[@gertrudewest4535]

Severe drought and six months of brutal triple digit record heat for us here in Southern Arizona. Wells drying up, lakes drying up and no rain in sight.

[@ejwatcher5643]

@@gertrudewest4535 I feel your pain, that's our usual sinario, hope you can hang in there. 💪👍

[@ejwatcher5643]

@@pooryorick831 yeah, sure is an exciting time to be alive , never a dull moment. Hopefully we all get a break soon.

[@sebastienloyer9471]

IT is a war of attrition. Time for fighting back. Think ,5th colons

[@thegovernmentshill]

He says, "the ash will never fall to the ground as long as there is any air." (Yet he's picking it up OFF THE GROUND!?)

[@jonathanbush6197]

He misspoke. One mechanism that put the ash on the ground was rain. He was simply pointing out why the ash spread as far around the world as it did.

[@michaelpond813]

The years of trump in office much worse. We can still smell the stinch

[@DrakikleidiLeia]

@@michaelpond813 why here? Not now please. Ur prob a bot. Have a good day.

[@saltykraken9471]

@@michaelpond813 yeah the new guy is such an improvement.

[@frozenrogue8970]

@@michaelpond813Yes the traitor in the office we have right now is much better 🤔 the whole world laughing at America now but when Trump was in the office they respected Him. Check fact, not cnn propaganda and you will be so surprised.

[@tommunyon2874]

I took delight in showing out-of-town relatives the Valle Grande caldera.

[@dizzyspellxoxo]

My new favorite channel.

[@oggyreidmore]

Homer Simpson: "The worst year to be alive SO FAR."

[@TennesseeSaint]

If such an event would occur, wouldn’t it be in the interest of all nations be to somehow filter the atmosphere on a large scale, rather than to just wait for the catastrophic results to run its course? Surely such an effort would bring the world together rather than to tear it apart yet again. Perhaps strategically placed filtration locations near known volcanic hotspots, could mitigate an initial spread of ash, etc. It seems like our world has started to seek solutions for a possible future asteroid strike. Why not become more proactive about a much more likely event such as this?

[@mikekahl5609]

With in 3 days the stores would be empty and people would start killing each other for any scraps that could be found. 90% of the world population will die before the sky clears. And now days we are worried about cow farts.

[@truthsocialmedia]

2 billion nuclear bombs is something humans just cannot effect a substantial change on. were just ants on a rock. and if nature says, i'm gonna blow up the world for 15 years, there is not much that can be done.

[@Polisciandfries]

The fuss people kicked up at covering their nose and mouth in public...imagine trying to orchestrate a global volcano response

[@truthsocialmedia]

@@Polisciandfries if people were actually dropping like flies, it would have been more urgent. my friggin lord, 100 year old's survived covid. its like this was all orchestrated for a "great reset"

[@tstoof]

I don't think it would work if we put the filtration systems near the hotspot, because they'd be surely destroyed during the blast. However, it does make sense to at least try to look into the possibility of such systems. If it could work it might prove vital to our survival.

[@charlietheneedlegirl9894]

The music was extremely scary in this!!!