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It's worse than you think.

The Hekla-3 eruption likely ended the Bronze Age c. 1100 BC, wiping out 95% of all Mediterranean cities. The first crop failure was bad enough, but the second year's starved almost everybody.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hekla

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hekla_3_eruption

Note that all societies were very religious (superstitious) whether Aztec, Mayan, Mediterranean or African.

Christianity largely grew after the Byzantine Roman Emperor, Constantine, converted around AD 312.

(The Roman Empire was so large that it had two capitals, Rome in the west, and Constantinople (Byzantium) in the east. The latter became Istanbul in AD 1453.)




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