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Cooling and societal change

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The rise and fall of civilizations over the past two millennia was set against a backdrop of climate change. High-resolution climate records evince a link between societal change and a period of cooling in the sixth and seventh centuries.

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  1. John Haldon is in the Department of History, Princeton University, 129 Dickinson Hall, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-1017, USA,

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Haldon, J. Cooling and societal change. Nature Geosci 9, 191–192 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2659

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