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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Atherton, post: 4584206, member: 82616&quot;]An interesting read, but very dubious to conclude that a volcanic eruption in the Aleutian Islands helped cause the fall of the Republic! The eruption may indeed have caused a temporary cooling of the climate (much like 1816&#039;s &#039;year without a summer&#039;) but certainly didn&#039;t last long enough to cause the major social upheavals outlined in the article.</p><p><br /></p><p>In fact, the Mediterranean in general was experiencing a very stable period of warmer than normal climate. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Warm_Period" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Warm_Period" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Warm_Period</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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