Climate, or what rules the fate of civilizations

We rarely have to think about the fact that the climate affects the course of history. What served as the birth of the three great civilizations of antiquity-Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Indo-Harrapskaya? How did the average -global drop in temperature have only half a gradus to talk about global warming, melting glaciers, worldwide flood?
Did you know that the troubles, and in front of him, the "Encounted Board of Boris Godunov gave rise to a sharp jump in the climate - a catastrophic cooling. According to contemporaries, on July 28, 1601, the great snow fell on Moscow among the summer and there was a frost, they rode in a sleigh. " And what can I say if the temperature in the last century was much lower than now: Dostoevsky’s characters went into a coat in the summer.
Actually, our entire civilization is a creation of a short period of "thaws". 400 years before Ovid, even in Rome, neither grapes nor olives ripened. One of the most difficult scientific tasks - to trace the impact of the climate on the history of mankind - is decided by the author surprisingly exciting! This is an investigation with a bunch of facts, non -standard examples and unexpected evidence confirming: climatic cuisine is perhaps one of the most difficult to explain processes that humanity is familiar with