The 8.2 kilo year event is used as a climate-change trigger that pushed people from Anatolia and the Levant outward and helped spread agriculture.
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The 8.2 kilo year event is used as a climate-change trigger that pushed people from Anatolia and the Levant outward and helped spread agriculture.
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Jiang links the spread of agriculture after the 8.2 kilo year event to a peaceful, egalitarian mother-goddess world, then uses the 5.9 kilo year event as a second climate shock that forced migration and civilizational change.
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"...8.2 kilo year event. And we can see this as dramatic climate change that radically changed the geography and the climate of this world...."
"So they went to Europe, they went to Egypt, they went to Mesopotamia. And when they did that, they spread agriculture. And remember, the..."
"...the computer to solve all the world's problems for us, including climate change, war, and so once we create AGI and we give it..."
"...same time. There were earthquakes. There were famines. There was a climate crisis. There were wars. There were civil wars. There were revolutions. And..."
"...side, we go back to cavemen. Technology is the solution to climate change."
"...for the longest time, they suffered a drought issue. Okay? Just climate change. And so, what the plan of the Israelis and Americans is,..."
"...most amenable to agriculture. But then, if you remember, there's always climate change. And because of climate change, they're not forced to migrate, okay?..."
"...strong, very aggressive people. And again, because of overpopulation, because of climate change, these people are now forced to migrate to Europe. Okay? They..."
"...the population of Europe doubles because of technological innovation, because the climate is warming, allowing for agriculture, because of the rise of cities, and..."
"...this world at this time okay so this perfect storm includes climate change climate change leads to drought which leads to famine which leads..."
"...And he says it was a perfect storm of crisis. Including climate change, which led to drought, which led to famine. There were also..."
"...the Proto -Indo -Europeans we discussed previously. And then, because of climate change, because of the collapse of the Bronze Age, they will come..."
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