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An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World. In AD 536, a volcanic eruption meant our planet was enveloped by a cloak of lethal dust which changed the climate for decades. Tens of millions of people died around the globe as a bubonic plague epidemic broke out. It was the nearest humankind has ever come to Doomsday and it marked the real beginning of the modern era. David Keys sets the record straight by firmly placing the pivotal point in world history as the mid-sixth-century Dark Ages and shows how our fragile civilisation almost ended. |
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