Paul Cooper
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5 Jun
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People began to starve in cities, and...
Crucially, because this was affecting the whole region, the rivals of the Sumerians were struggling too.
They were then driven to raid and plunder in Sumerian lands.
So we see that as the environment tightens its noose around a whole region, that creates conflict, that creates the desire to invade fertile, abundant areas.
And this was too much for the Sumerian society to handle.
And each one of the Sumerian cities is destroyed in turn.
We see that societies from the past were sometimes completely destroyed by these climate shifts that today we would hardly even notice.
Britain had a unique place in the Roman Empire.
It was a large island, which is a kind of territory that they had never really conquered before.
But this provided problems of supply, problems of connection to the mainland.
That would always mean that Britain sat in a slightly awkward position within the Western Empire.
When the Romans arrived in Britain, they loved playing up how wild and untamed and semi-monstrous the people were.
The Roman writer Ammianus Marcellinus even famously describes Britons sitting in swamp water up to their necks for days on end, living only on nuts.
Well, you see, jokes about British weather and bad food have been going on for two millennia, it seems.
But when Rome slowly conquered and began a process of Romanisation in Britain, they would always find it a restive province.
With its long coastline, it was always prone to attack from people like the Atacote and Scotty in Ireland.
These are kind of warlike tribal peoples.
From Saxons, Jutes, Geats, you name it, coming from the east in Germany and Denmark, Norway, etc.
And from people beyond Hadrian's Wall, the northern limit of the empire.
People who had become known as the Picts due to the pictures that they painted on their skins.
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