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Dan Carlin. The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
THE END IS ALWAYS NEAR
Dan Carlin
Copyright
Dedication
PREFACE
Chapter 1
DO TOUGH TIMES MAKE FOR TOUGHER PEOPLE?
Chapter 2
SUFFER THE CHILDREN
Chapter 3
THE END OF THE WORLD AS THEY KNEW IT
Suspect #1: The Sea Peoples (and Related Causes)
Suspect #2: Famine/Climate Change/Drought
Suspect #3: Earthquakes/Volcanoes/Tsunamis
Suspect #4: Plagues
Suspect #5: Internecine Warfare
Suspects #6 and #7: Systems Collapse, Multiple Causes
Chapter 4
JUDGMENT AT NINEVEH
Chapter 5
THE BARBARIAN LIFE CYCLE
Chapter 6
A PANDEMIC PROLOGUE?
Chapter 7
THE QUICK AND THE DEAD
Chapter 8
THE ROAD TO HELL
AFTERWORD
FURTHER READING
Chapter 1: Do Tough Times Make for Tougher People?
Chapter 2: Suffer the Children
Chapter 3: The End of the World as They Knew It
Chapter 4: Judgment at Nineveh
Chapter 5: The Barbarian Life Cycle
Chapter 6: A Pandemic Prologue?
Chapter 7: The Quick and the Dead
Chapter 8: The Road to Hell
FOOTNOTES. Preface
Chapter 1: Do Tough Times Make for Tougher People?
Chapter 2: Suffer the Children
Chapter 3: The End of the World as They Knew It
Chapter 4: Judgment at Nineveh
Chapter 5: The Barbarian Life Cycle
Chapter 6: A Pandemic Prologue?
Chapter 7: The Quick and the Dead
Chapter 8: The Road to Hell
Afterword
Acknowledgments
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
About the Author
About the Publisher
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Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
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While there are still big supporters of the idea that the peoples of the sea were of pivotal importance to the end of the Bronze Age, they are perhaps seen by most these days as more of an effect than a cause. The migrations, piracy, and even invasions may have been a response to something else …
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are commonly given the names Conquest (or Pestilence), War, Famine, and Death. In much of the modern world, the horsemen don’t seem as scary as they used to. War and conquest are still around, of course, but no World War III (yet). We are no longer able to relate to what our forebears went through with disease (pestilence).[26] And mass, society-wide famine is almost unheard of in most of the world. It seems like much of the darkness that humankind lived with from time immemorial has been banished from our future.
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