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Springer, Dordrecht
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Authors: Rhodes W Fairbridge
Publish Date: 2009
Volume: , Issue: , Pages: 414-428
Abstract
The elemental concept of climate change probably evolved in documentary form in ancient Egypt Nile Valley Mesopotamia the Indus Valley and in China where exceptional river floods or extended droughts were experienced Decadal to centurylong variations in the amplitudes of the Nile floods were more or less paralleled by the fortunes of successive dynasties Times of drought and famine were socially more serious than episodic experiences of excessive summer floods Early chapters of the JudeoChristian Bible notably Genesis recounted the tale of the fortyday rain resulting in the “flood of Noah” and the subsequent recovery Other oriental cultures contained comparable traditional
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