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JustSayingJesus Christ, somebody do a zombie/end times movie in Detroit already. Can there be any better fucking place?
TheFreakWhen they excavate ancient cities and discover they were suddenly abandoned, there's always an assumption of some great natural catastrophe that caused it. I wonder how often it was collapsing economies or political hubris that were the real cause.
oritteropoThe docos I have seen on excavations of suddenly abandoned cities generally feature some discussion of whether there is evidence of political collapse (fire, looting) or natural catastrophe (climate records of drought, or evidence of earthquake etc.).
In some cases it is possible to determine, but sometimes we'll just never know.
Of course, it's always possible that a city happened to suffer a GFC style bank blow-up exactly as a natural catastrophe arrived, there's no rule that droughts can't happen in years of political or financial ineptitude.
When they excavate ancient cities and discover they were suddenly abandoned, there's always an assumption of some great natural catastrophe that caused it. I wonder how often it was collapsing economies or political hubris that were the real cause.
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