HIST 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lighthouse Keeper, Nutmeg, Rinderpest
7 Jan 2018
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!1: these early eruptions start frightening a lot of people and the dutch officials put. Local significance: about 165 villages destroyed, boas found inland, global temperatures drop about 1. 2 degrees c, kills about 36 000 people, most explosions kill from ash, poisonous gasses, burning, or mud rivers but. Krakatoa kills almost all victims from water (drowning) Global significance: global natural event, natural effects felt word wide, also globe media event, only after 1883 people know the name krakatoa, before had no idea what it. People far away from krakatoa feel it was. Wednesday, november 15, 2017: largest tsunami was 100 ft high and swept across the pacific ocean and back to the krakatoa numerous times. Ship lays a cable, and new ships next cable and so on empire: creates new agencies consolidating info from all over the world, communicate london and india in three hours which is much shorter than.
