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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mindovermatter: [QB] And ARTICLES LIKE THESE PROVIDE SUPPORT TO THE CLAIMS AND IDEAS THAT I'M MAKING IN THIS THREAD: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/malaria_01.shtml [QUOTE][b] Malaria and the Fall of Rome By Andrew Thompson Last updated 2011-02-17 [IMG]http://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/88318d1e00084880fe193410fa0ab6afe2ccf948.jpg[/IMG] [i]Could an ancient children's burial ground contain clues about how one of the world's greatest empires came to an end? Andrew Thompson explores the theory that malaria was the silent killer responsible for the fall of Rome.[/i] ROMAN FEVER TODAY IN THE WEST, MOST PEOPLE HAVE FORGOTTEN HOW DEADLY MALARIA USED TO BE, ALTHOUGH THERE WERE SERIOUS MALARIAL EPIDEMICS IN MANY PARTS OF ITALY AS RECENTLY AS THE 1950S. BUT EACH YEAR, MAINLY IN AFRICA, IT STILL KILLS OVER TWO MILLION PEOPLE, MOST OF THEM CHILDREN. WHILE THERE ARE SEVERAL MENTIONS OF A DISEASE SOUNDING VERY SIMILAR TO MALARIA IN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS FROM ROMAN TIMES, THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY HARD EVIDENCE OF ITS PRESENCE. ...THE MOST DANGEROUS TYPE OF MALARIA WAS A KILLER IN IMPERIAL ROME. BUT LAST YEAR, FOR THE FIRST TIME, A BRITISH SCIENTIST PROVED CONCLUSIVELY THAT THE MOST DANGEROUS TYPE OF MALARIA WAS A KILLER IN IMPERIAL ROME. THE SCIENTIST RELIED ON THE LATEST DNA TECHNIQUES THAT ARE REVOLUTIONIZING THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE ROLE OF DISEASE IN ANCIENT TIMES. THE MALARIAL DNA FROM A ROMAN SITE, DATING FROM AROUND AD 450, IS THE OLDEST DEFINITE EVIDENCE OF MALARIA IN HISTORY. THE FINDING OF MALARIA WAS A REMARKABLE AND COMPLICATED PIECE OF DETECTIVE WORK, WHICH SPANNED THE LAST TEN YEARS. At its height, the Roman Empire stretched from Scotland in the northern hemisphere to the deserts of Africa in the south. The empire lasted for over 500 years, although its eastern part, the Byzantine Empire, lasted for several more centuries. When the empire collapsed, hordes of barbarian armies, including the infamous Vandal pirates, invaded Italy throughout the fifth century AD. Rome was transformed from a bustling city of millions to a provincial town of a few thousand, surrounded by swamps. The anarchy of the Dark Ages had begun. ALTHOUGH THERE HAS BEEN NO SHORTAGE OF THEORIES, IT HAS NEVER BEEN CLEAR WHY ROME BECAME SO VULNERABLE TO FOREIGN INVADERS AT THIS TIME. POLITICAL INSTABILITY, THE COLLAPSE OF FOOD SUPPLIES TO ROME, AND EVEN THE INFAMOUS LEAD IN THE WATER SUPPLIES HAVE ALL BEEN IMPLICATED. HISTORIANS HAVE GENERALLY AGREED THAT ROME'S DOWNFALL WAS DUE TO A COMBINATION OF MANY FACTORS. [IMG]http://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/1e4e1942cf8293234c45a6dfd81495efd6d2adf3.jpg[/IMG] ONE ELEMENT THAT HAS LARGELY BEEN IGNORED BY RESEARCHERS IS THE ROLE OF DISEASE AND EPIDEMICS IN CONTRIBUTING TO THE FALL OF ROME. DAVID SOREN IS THE AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGIST BEHIND THE NEW THEORY THAT MALARIA PLAYED A KEY PART. HE IS AN EXPERT ON ROMAN ANTIQUITY, HAVING DUG AT SEVERAL SITES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA. TEN YEARS AGO HE WAS INVITED TO A BEAUTIFUL HILL TOWN CALLED LUGNANO (JUST NORTH OF ROME) BY LOCAL ARCHAEOLOGISTS. THEY WANTED SOREN TO HELP THEM EXCAVATE THE REMAINS OF A ROMAN VILLA OUTSIDE THE TOWN. At first Soren thought it would be a fairly straightforward excavation. But it wasn't long before he came across something totally unexpected. In the store rooms at the back of the villa he and his team found the skeleton of a baby, buried in a pottery storage jar (an 'amphora'). That same day his team found seven more child skeletons, and soon more and more babies were being uncovered. In the end Soren and his team excavated 47 children. The oldest was just three years old, most were much younger: over half had died in the womb. It is the largest children's cemetery ever found from Roman times. But the large number of children was not the most unusual thing about the site. As they uncovered the babies the archaeologists began to find the remains of puppies. It soon became clear that these puppies had been sacrificed, they had literally been torn apart and then placed in the grave as part of the burial ritual. Most of them had been decapitated. There were also signs of burnt plant offerings. All this was a puzzle to David Soren, because at the time of the burials most of the citizens of the Roman Empire were ostensibly Christian. Soren believed that whatever it was that was killing the children must have been so terrible that the parents were afraid of it. That was perhaps why the villagers had rejected Christianity and reverted to pagan practices. [IMG]http://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/f8fc79accf48f95d6037a8155554169cbf8743c3.jpg[/IMG] "Pottery storage jars found at Lugnano" A DEADLY EPIDEMIC OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS SOREN PIECED TOGETHER ALL THE EVIDENCE THAT MIGHT HELP TO EXPLAIN WHAT THE VILLAGERS WERE SO AFRAID OF. FROM CAREFUL EXCAVATIONS OF THE SITE HE KNEW THAT ALL THE BABIES HAD BEEN BURIED OVER A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, PROBABLY JUST A FEW MONTHS AT MOST. SOME OF THE BONES OF THE CHILDREN SHOWED EVIDENCE OF SOME TYPE OF BLOOD DISEASE. AND MANY OF THE PLANT OFFERINGS WERE OF HONEYSUCKLE, A PLANT COMMONLY USED IN THE TREATMENT OF FEVERS BY THE ROMANS. SOREN BELIEVED IT WAS A DEADLY EPIDEMIC, AND MOST LIKELY MALARIA. ROMAN WRITERS IN THE AREA OF LUGNANO HAD SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED THAT THERE WAS A ZONE OF PESTILENCE IN THIS REGION AND THAT PEOPLE DIED OF FEVERS. SOREN'S MOST IMPORTANT ALLY IN ITALY WAS ONE OF THE WORLD'S LEADING EXPERTS ON MALARIAL MOSQUITOES - PROFESSOR MARIO COLUZZI OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ROME. INDEPENDENTLY OF SOREN'S WORK, HE HAD BEEN INVESTIGATING THE SPREAD OF MALARIA OUT OF AFRICA AND INTO ITALY AND THE REST OF SOUTHERN EUROPE. COLUZZI BELIEVED THAT MALARIA WAS NOT A PROBLEM AT THE BEGINNING OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, BUT HAD BECOME INCREASINGLY SERIOUS AS THE EMPIRE DECLINED. IT IS KNOWN THAT MALARIA ORIGINATED IN CENTRAL AFRICA AND THEN SPREAD NORTH. COLUZZI WAS MOST INTERESTED IN WORKING OUT WHEN IT FIRST ARRIVED IN ITALY, AND HOW IT GOT THERE. WIDESPREAD TRADE KEY TO COLUZZI'S IDEAS WAS THE THRIVING TRADE THROUGHOUT THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION DURING ROMAN TIMES. COLUZZI BELIEVES THAT ONE WAY THE MALARIA REACHED MAINLAND ITALY WAS BY CARGO SHIP. PASSENGERS ON THE BOATS COULD BE CARRYING THE MALARIA IN THEIR BLOODSTREAM EVEN BEFORE SHOWING SYMPTOMS. THE WATER BARREL ON BOARD COULD CONTAIN MOSQUITO LARVAE. There is now more and more archaeological evidence of widespread trade. Last year, at the ancient harbour of Olbia on the island of Sardinia, 16 Roman cargo ships were found buried in the mud. THEY WERE EXTREMELY WELL PRESERVED, MANY OF THEM STILL HAD THEIR WOODEN DECKING INTACT, AND THEY HAVE NOW BEEN CAREFULLY EXCAVATED. POTTERY ON BOARD WAS FURTHER PROOF OF TRADE BETWEEN NORTH AFRICA AND ROME. SARDINIA WAS ALMOST CERTAINLY A STEPPING STONE FOR THE MALARIA PARASITE, BEFORE IT REACHED MAINLAND ITALY. COLUZZI'S RESEARCH INDICATES THAT THE MOST SERIOUS TYPE OF MALARIA (KNOWN AS PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM) REACHED ROME AT ABOUT THE TIME OF CHRIST. EVEN THOUGH COLUZZI'S WORK DOVETAILED NICELY WITH SOREN'S THEORY ABOUT THE CHILDREN OF LUGNANO, MOST ARCHAEOLOGISTS, ESPECIALLY IN THE UNITED STATES, WERE EXTREMELY SCEPTICAL OF THE MALARIA HYPOTHESIS. SOREN RECEIVED HUGE AMOUNTS OF CRITICISM FROM FELLOW ARCHAEOLOGISTS, WHO ARGUED THAT THE INFANT BURIALS MAY HAVE HAPPENED OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME, AND THAT EVEN IF IT WAS AN EPIDEMIC IT WAS LIKELY TO BE SOME OTHER DISEASE. ALTHOUGH SOREN HIMSELF WAS CONVINCED HE WAS RIGHT, FEW BELIEVED HIM AND HIS RESEARCH WAS MARGINALISED. Malarial DNA It was in the late 1990s that a British scientist first heard about David Soren's work on the children of Lugnano. Robert Sallares was a DNA expert based at UMIST (University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology). He was particularly interested in using the latest DNA techniques to identify diseases of the past. His main problem was finding bones that might be associated with a particular disease. There was no point in looking randomly at bones from the past, he needed to know that there was a good chance that the person had died of a particular disease. At first Sallares was unable to find suitable bones, but when he read about Soren's work, he approached him about doing DNA tests. Soren jumped at the opportunity. Not only did Robert Sallares take his theory seriously, but now, for the first time, there was a forensic technique that would give cast-iron evidence either way as to the presence of malaria. Sallares and his team painstakingly analysed the bones, searching for the tell-tale DNA traces of the disease. The first four results all came up negative. IT WAS NOT UNTIL SALLARES TRIED THE FIFTH AND LAST BONE SAMPLES THAT HE FINALLY CAME UP WITH A POSITIVE RESULT. HE WAS ABLE TO SHOW THE PRESENCE OF MALARIAL DNA IN THE LEG BONES OF A THREE-YEAR-OLD GIRL. BECAUSE OF THE WAY MALARIA SPREADS, THIS PARTICULAR MALARIA WAS MOST LIKELY PART OF AN EPIDEMIC SWEEPING THROUGH A REGION OF ITALY. THE USE OF DNA PROBES TO IDENTIFY DISEASES OF THE PAST HAS RECENTLY BEEN APPLIED TO MANY OTHER DISEASES, INCLUDING THE BLACK DEATH. IT IS PARTICULARLY USEFUL IN DISEASES THAT DO NOT LEAVE TELL-TALE SIGNS OF SYMPTOMS ON THE BONES OF VICTIMS - WHICH APPLIES TO MOST DISEASES. FOR INSTANCE, PEOPLE WHO DIE OF SYPHILIS HAVE VERY DISTINCTIVE MALFORMATIONS ON THE SKULL, BUT MALARIA ONLY CAUSES SIGNS OF DISEASE IN SOME BONES - SO USUALLY IT IS ONLY BY MEANS OF A DNA TEST THAT SCIENTISTS CAN BE POSITIVE THAT MALARIA WAS PRESENT WHEN SOMEONE DIED. THE DNA WORK OF ROBERT SALLARES HAS NOW CONFIRMED THAT MALARIA WAS A KILLER DURING LATE ROMAN TIMES. THE CHILDREN OF LUGNANO DIED OF MALARIA, AND IT IS LIKELY THAT THERE WERE ALSO MANY ADULT VICTIMS OF THE DISEASE, ALTHOUGH THEIR CEMETERY HAS NOT YET BEEN FOUND. THIS WOULD HAVE MADE IT DIFFICULT FOR FARMERS TO COLLECT CROPS AND FOR THE LOCAL ARMY COMMANDERS TO RAISE TROOPS. WHAT WAS ONCE A FOOTNOTE IN THE HISTORY BOOKS ON THE FALL OF ROME, MUST NOW BECOME A WHOLE CHAPTER. DAVID SOREN'S THEORY THAT MALARIA CONTRIBUTED TO THE FALL OF ROME HAS FINALLY BEEN VINDICATED.[/b][/QUOTE]AND THIS: https://contagions.wordpress.com/2016/01/16/human-parasites-of-the-roman-empire/ [QUOTE][b] Human Parasites of the Roman Empire LAST WEEK PHOTOS OF ROMAN TOILETS WERE SPLASHED ACROSS THE WEB BREAKING THE NEWS THAT THE ROMANS WERE NOT A HEALTHY AS MOST PEOPLE SEEM TO HAVE ASSUMED. AS WITH MANY PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS, THE REAL VALUE OF A SANITATION SYSTEM IS OUT OF VIEW (AND OUT OF MIND) TO MOST PEOPLE. IT’S NOT THE TOILET THAT KEEPS US HEALTHY; ITS THE WATER TREATMENT PLANT. PLUMBING JUST MOVES WASTE WITH ITS MICROBES AND PARASITES FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER. PALEOPARASITOLOGY SPECIALIST PIERS MITCHELL PUT THE ROMAN PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM TO THE TEST BY EVALUATING THE EVIDENCE FOR HUMAN PARASITES IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL REMAINS FROM BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER THE ROMAN EMPIRE. COMPARISONS BEFORE AND AFTER THE EMPIRE ARE MORE DIFFICULT IN NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST BECAUSE THESE AREAS HAD LONG STANDING SOPHISTICATED CIVILIZATIONS BEFORE THE ROMAN EMPIRE. THERE IS MORE CLARITY BETWEEN CIVILIZATIONS IN EUROPE SINCE CELTIC AND GERMANIC SOCIETIES DID NOT HAVE ANYTHING LIKE ROMAN INFRASTRUCTURE. CONTRARY TO HIS EXPECTATIONS, THERE WERE JUST AS MANY PARASITES AND ECTOPARASITES IN THE ROMAN ERA AS BEFORE OR AFTER. IN SOME CASES THE EMPIRE HELPED SPREAD PARASITES ACROSS EUROPE. Relative amounts of parasites across times is difficult to ascertain for a huge variety of reasons. So while the same parasites were present, the degree of infestation would have varied by place and time period, and archaeology can’t reliably predict this. THE ROMAN ACHILLES’ HEEL WAS THEIR USE OF HUMAN WASTE FOR FERTILIZER AND FECAL CONTAMINATION OF RIVERS. HUMAN WASTE WAS ADDED TO THE OTHER MANURE AND REDISTRIBUTED TO FARM FIELDS AND THE WATERSHED. WHAT THEY COULD NOT HAVE UNDERSTOOD IS THAT HUMAN WASTE IS A GREATER RISK FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF HUMAN PARASITES AND BACTERIAL DISEASES. MITCHELL ALSO SUGGESTS THAT ROMAN BATH WATER, THAT WAS RARELY CHANGED, COULD HAVE TRANSMITTED WORM EGGS AND OTHER PARASITES. AQUADUCTS DID BRING IN CLEANER WATER TO SOME OF THE LARGER CITIES BUT THE SYSTEM COULD BE CONTAMINATED AND NOT ALL ROMAN SITES HAD ACCESS TO WATER FROM AQUADUCTS. WALTER SCHEIDEL (2015:8) HAS CLAIMED THAT THE CITY OF ROME ITSELF WAS AN EXAMPLE OF THE”URBAN GRAVEYARD” EFFECT WITH A VERY UNHEALTHY POPULATION DESPITE HAVING A “HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED FOOD AND WATER SUPPLY”. SCHEIDEL EMPHASIZES THE IMPACT OF MALARIA AND GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE. WE SHOULD ALSO KEEP IN MIND THAT A LARGE PROPORTION OF GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE WOULD HAVE BEEN BACTERIAL OR VIRAL. [IMG]https://contagions.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/still_life_tor_marancia_vatican.jpg?w=310&h=320[/IMG] [i]Second century Roman mosaic of foodstuffs[/i] As the mosaic to the left shows, the Romans did change agriculture throughout the empire. They spread Mediterranean preferences for cereals and more fish and other aquatic food sources. MITCHELL SUGGESTS THAT THE ROMAN LOVE FOR FISH PRODUCTS, ESPECIALLY THE FERMENTED FISH SAUCE GARUM, PROBABLY HELP SPREAD FISH TAPEWORMS FOUND THROUGHOUT THE EMPIRE. MANY PARASITES AND BACTERIAL SPORES HAVE EVOLVED TO WITHSTAND PRESERVING METHODS LIKE SMOKING, PICKLING, AND OSMOTIC PRESERVATION (LIKE SALTING OR SUGARING). WHIPWORM WAS THE MOST COMMON PARASITE FOUND, BUT ROUND WORMS AND TAPE WORMS WERE ALSO COMMON. LANCET LIVER FLUKES WERE WIDESPREAD AND INDICATE THE (PRESUMABLY ACCIDENTAL) CONSUMPTION OF ANTS. ANTIBODY BASED DETECTION (ELISA) HAS BEEN ABLE TO IDENTIFY ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA THAT CAUSES THE USUALLY ENDEMIC AMOEBIC DYSENTERY (AS OPPOSED TO THE EPIDEMIC BACTERIAL DYSENTERY CAUSED BY SHIGELLA SPECIES). ALTHOUGH NOT STRICTLY SPEAKING PARASITES, MITCHELL NOTES AN ABUNDANCE OF EVIDENCE FOR FLIES AROUND CESSPITS SUGGESTING THAT THEY CONTRIBUTED TO THE SPREAD OF DISEASES ASSOCIATED WITH FECAL CONTAMINATION. HE ALSO NOTES THAT SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAS NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED IN ROMAN EUROPE, EVEN THOUGH IT HAS BEEN FOUND IN MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN REMAINS. TURNING TO ECTOPARASITES, MITCHELL FOUND AMPLE EVIDENCE OF HEAD LICE, BODY LICE, PUBLIC LICE, HUMAN FLEAS AND BED BUGS ACROSS THE ROMANIZED WORLD. HUMAN FLEAS (PULEX IRRITANS) HAVE BEEN PARTICULARLY WELL PRESERVED IN ROMAN, ANGLO-SCANDINAVIAN AND MEDIEVAL YORK IN BRITAIN. MITCHELL NOTES THAT HUMAN FLEAS AND BODY LICE WERE PRESENT IN OVER 50 ARCHAEOLOGICAL LAYERS AT YORK. HE CONCLUDES THAT “THE ROMAN HABIT OF WASHING IN PUBLIC BATHS DOES NOT SEEM TO HAVE DECREASED THEIR RISK OF CONTRACTING ECTOPARASITES, COMPARED WITH VIKING AND MEDIEVAL PEOPLE WHO DID NOT USE PUBLIC BATHS IN THE SAME WAY” (MITCHELL 2016: 6). MITCHELL SUGGESTS THAT THERE WERE ENOUGH ECTOPARASITES TO SUPPORT PARTICULARLY LICE TRANSMITTED DISEASES. HE NOTES THAT PLAGUE OF JUSTINIAN WAS TRANSMITTED BY FLEAS BUT IS NON-COMMITTAL ON THE LIKELY SPECIFIC VECTOR. IN EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, MITCHELL NOTES THAT THE TRANSITION FROM A WIDE VARIETY OF ZOONOTIC PARASITES TO THOSE PRIMARILY ASSOCIATED WITH HUMAN FECAL CONTAMINATION HAD ALREADY OCCURRED BEFORE THE ROMAN EXPANSION OUT OF ITALY. THIS SHIFT IS PARALLELED ELSEWHERE AND IS TIED TO SHIFT FROM HUNTER-GATHERS TO SETTLED AGRICULTURE. WHIPWORM, ROUNDWORM AND AMOEBIC DYSENTERY WERE THE PRIMARY PARASITES OF ROMAN EUROPE, WHILE THE ROMANS SEEM TO HAVE MADE A LESSER IMPACT ON NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST WHERE ENDEMIC ZONES OF PARASITES WERE WELL ESTABLISHED. Malaria is the one parasitic disease I would have liked to see Mitchell discuss more. Mitchell notes that malarial aDNA has been found in Egypt and anemia possibly caused by malaria in Italy. He overlooks all the malaria work by Robert Sallares including malarial aDNA from Late Roman Italy and better anemia studies correlating with malaria have been done in Italy and Britain by Rebecca Gowland’s group. Yet, malaria is such a big topic that it would be hard to cover along with all the other parasites.[/b][/QUOTE]Clearly Sanitation, Hygiene, Hygienic practices, working infrastructure, food pollution, droughts, spreading of parasites and diseases, cleanliness, mortality rates, life expectancy, harvests, climate, food production ability, bugs, organization, management, control of health problems and risks; WERE ALL CHALLENGES THAT EARLY ADVANCED CIVILIZATIONS IN THE GRECO-ROMAN AREAS, THE ONLY KNOWN ADVANCED CIVILIZATIONS IN THE EUROPEAN PENINSULA IN ANCIENT TIMES, FACED AND HAD TO DEAL WITH AS PROBLEMATIC CHALLENGES AND ISSUES AS DESCRIBED IN THE PRECEDING QUOTES ABOVE ME! [b] And clearly the Greco-Roman peoples were falling behind in various departments when it came to diseases, hygiene, clean-liness, awareness of bacteria and plague management, sanitation and sanitation practices, ignorance of food safety and safe eating practices etc etc, and this came to hurt them severely in the outbreak of various diseases and plague outbreaks, that HIT THEM AND DECIMATED MAJOR SEGMENTS OF THEIR POPULATION AND MAJOR POPULATION CENTERS DURING THE DURATION's OF THEIR EXISTENCE AS REGIONAL POWERS AND CIVILIZATION ENTITIES! And VARIOUS MANY ARE ARGUING THAT THIS FACTOR, IS WHAT MAY HAVE MADE THE ORIGINAL GRECO-ROMAN CIVILIZATIONS, VULNERABLE AND OPEN TO OUTSIDE EURASIAN STEPPE ALBINO BARBARIAN AGGRESSION, HOSTILITY, AND POPULATION MIGRATIONS LATER ON DURING THE START OF THE MIDDLE AGES! Conclusively we can deduce and arrive to the idea that, THAT THIS LITTLE ICE AGE EVENT WITH THE COMBINED FACTOR'S OF DISEASE AND PLAGUE OUTBREAKS; taking into consideration the reality and realities of public sanitation, aware-ness of disease management and proper hygiene practices, disease and germ awareness, clean-liness, public hygiene, food pollution handling, proper sanitary management practices, clean and pollution/disease free infrastructure realities of the Greco-Roman cities and civilization, as described in the two articles above me; CONTRIBUTED TO THE FALL AND DECIMATION OF MAJOR SEGMENTS AND NUMBERS OF EUROPE'S ORIGINAL BLACK POPULATIONS AND CIVILIZATION BUILDERS THAT ORIGINALLY BUILT THE GRECO-ROMAN CIVILIZATIONS IN THE SOUTHERN EUROPE REGION! The little Ice age event in Europe simply accelerated AND INDUCED the DECLINE, DESTRUCTION, AND DECIMATION OF BLACK EUROPEAN POPULATIONS IN EUROPE, PARTICULARLY THOSE IN THE CIVILIZATION AREAS OF SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL AND WESTERN EUROPE, WHERE GRECO-ROMAN CIVILIZATION AROSE AND SPREAD IT'S SETTLERS TO, BY CREATING DRASTIC DISASTROUS AND HOSTILE CONDITIONS THAT CREATED MASSIVE DROUGHTS AND HARVEST PROBLEMS AND FOOD SHORTAGES, AND INFRASTRUCTURE DIFFICULTIES, WHICH ALL CONTRIBUTED TO THE ELIMINATION AND DECIMATION AND DISPLACEMENT AND VULNERABILITY TO OUTSIDE AGGRESSION FROM OUTSIDE EURASIAN ALBINO POPULATIONS, OF THE ORIGINAL BLACK EUROPEAN POPULATIONS AND SETTLERS OF EUROPE! THE SAME BLACK EUROPEAN POPULATIONS THAT CREATED THE ORIGINAL GRECO-ROMAN CIVILIZATIONS AND WERE EUROPE'S FIRST SETTLERS, AND WHOM HAD TO FACE THE BRUNT AND ALL THE RISKS AND DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES OF MAINTAINING ADVANCED CIVILIZATIONS, WITH ALL THE CHALLENGES AND REALITIES DESCRIBED ABOVE THAT I'VE MENTIONED THAT FACED ANCIENT BLACK EUROPEAN CIVS HISTORICALLY, AND THE ONSET OF THE LITTLE ICE AGE EVENT! AN EVENT WHICH THEY, THE ORIGINAL BLACK EUROPEAN POPULATIONS OF EUROPE, DID NOT SEE COMING AND WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE A COMPLETE DISASTER FOR THEM AND WHICH ULTIMATELY SPELLED THEIR DEMISE BY MAKING PRE-MEDIEVAL BLACK EUROPEAN POPULATIONS VERY OPEN AND VULNERABLE TO AGGRESSIVE POPULATION MIGRATIONS FROM THE STEPPES OF EURASIA OUTSIDE OF EUROPE! SOMETHING THAT ULTIMATELY LED TO THE DOWN FALL AND DISPLACEMENT OF THE ORIGINAL BLACK EUROPEAN POPULATIONS AND CIVILIZATIONS OF EUROPE IN HISTORICAL HINDSIGHT![/b] NOT BECAUSE OF SOME IDIOTIC LUDICROUS IGNORANT ASSUMPTION THAT NOWHERE IN EUROPE WERE THEIR ANY DENSELY POPULATED AREAS OR REGIONS OR CIVILIZATIONS OR TOWNS OR URBAN CENTERS; THAT ALBINO EURASIAN STEPPE TRIBES SIMPLY DID NOT ENCOUNTER OR SEE, OR TAKE OVER OR ATTACK OR KNOW ABOUT, WHEN THEY DECIDED TO MASS MIGRATE TO EUROPE FROM THE EURASIAN STEPPES IN ANCIENT TO EARLY MEDIEVAL TIMES! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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