Natural Causes: How Climate Change Wrote History
Books:
Brooke, John
Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A Rough Journey
Diamond, Jared
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Fagan, Brian
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
Harper, Kyle
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire
Articles
General:
www.historicalclimatology.com/
Salem Witch Trials:
Rye Ergot Poisoning Theory:
Wikipedia Medical Explanations of bewitchment
Poisons of the Past by Mary Kilbourne Matossian
Witchcraft or Mycotoxin? The Salem Witch Trials here or here
Lyme Disease Theory:
Wikipedia Medical Explanations of bewitchment
Disguised as the Devil: How Lyme Disease Created witches and Changed History by M. Drymon
The Maya:
Did Pulses of Climate Change Drive the Rise and Fall of the Maya? http://science.sciencemag.org/content/338/6108/730
Development and Disintegration of Maya Political Systems in Response to Climate Change
The Vikings:
Warm Climate Lead to Viking Expansion
Why Did Greenland's Vikings Disappear?
The Harappan/Indus Valley Civilization:
Climate Change led to collapse of ancient Indus civilization, study finds
Fluvial landscapes of the Harappan civilization
200-Year Drought Doomed Indus Valley Civilization
The Tang Dynasty, China:
The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Dynasties Tied to Climate Change
The Roman Climate Optimum, Disease and The Roman Empire
Wikipedia entry: Historiography of the fall of the Western Roman Empire
Wikipedia entry: Fall of the Western Roman Empire
Undark.com review of "Fate of Rome" by Madeline Ostrander When Rome Fell, the Chief Culprits Were Climate and Disease. Sound Familiar?
LA Times Opinion by Kyle Harper: Was the fall of Rome a biological phenomenon? (Was the fall of Rome a biological phenomenon.pdf)
Aeon.co by Kyle Harper: How climate change and disease helped the fall of Rome
Journal of Interdisciplinary History: Climate Change during and after the Roman Empire: Reconstructing the Past from Scientific and Historical Evidence ( Climate Change during and after the Roman Empire.pdf)
Vox.com: 6 Ways Climate Change and Disease Helped Topple the Roman Empire
LA Times Book Review of "Fate of Rome" by Ellie Robins: How the Environment Topples Empires: On Kyle Harper’s “The Fate of Rome”
Human Evolution and east Africa change:
The Mongols:
Mongol Empire Rode Wave of Mild Climate, Says Study
Warm, Wet Times Spurred Medieval Mongol Rise
Pluvials, droughts, the Mongol Empire, and modern Mongolia
Wet Weather May Have Turned Back Mongol Invasion
Mongol hordes gave up on conquering Europe due to wet weather
Philosophy:
