| From: | Ereskanti@***.com Ereskanti@***.com |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Crater Lake |
| Date: | Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:05:38 EDT |
atreloar@*********.com writes:
> The resultant tsunami also managed to lower the level of the Red Sea
> > sufficiently (and for a long enough time) that a bunch of Jewish refugees
> > leaving Egypt managed to get across. If you want an impression of the
> Theran
> > eruption as seen from a few thousand kilometers away, go and read Exodus.
>
> That comment started me on a hunt...
Oh goodie, I LOVE Hunts'....
> The Theran explosion caused...
>
> -The destruction of the Minoans.
Sure...
> -The (possible) destruction of Atlantis.
Okay...
> -A few greeks on the southern tip of Greece decided at about that time that
> they might prefer to live a little further west (after having your village
> washed away by the volcano, I'd want to move too) and decided to settle on
> the next penisula west, about halfway up the western side... Later to be
> called Rome and be the greatest empire to date in Europe.
I like this little twist actually, and if not true, a VERY cool way of
connecting the timeline of supermechanics....
> -An Egyptian pharoah was threatened with plagues of insects, rains of fire
> etc... The insects probably detected the explosion and decided to head
south
> for the winter at great speed (I'd be running scared like a scared person
> too, if I knew what it was about). The rain of fire was likely fallout
from
> the volcano. As you stated, the tsunami, it's forerunner as the ocean
> retreated, or it's aftereffect allowed a few jews to escape across the Red
> Sea.
Interesting idea, the only problem is that the timing involved would be
*awfully* quick. I don't know exactly where the crossing of the slaves
occurred, but it would have to be someplace shallow enough and narrow enough
for this to happen, and yet have a possible effect.
Anyone know more about Tsunami/Tidal powers with regards to Tidal Retreat and
Recovery?
> -The Sea Peoples were uprooted at about this time and driven east by
> northern invaders. Their civilisations were apparently weakened by
> earthquakes and walls of high water. The Sea Peoples (which include the
> Philistines) ended up sacking Troy, toppling the Hittite civilisation,
> laying waste to Syro-Palestine and unsuccessfully attacking the Nile Delta.
> Oh, and they allowed a few jews in their later years to settle at a place
> called Canaan after driving them from the coast. Later called Israel.
You have a twisted, but thinking, mind....I Like it...
> -The Phoenician civilisation at about this time because of the weakening of
> several older peoples on the eastern shore of the mediterranean.
>
> Meddlesome volcano, eh? Definitely a pivotal point of ancient history.
> Quite a lot of modern civilisation wouldn't be here if it hadn't erupted
> when it did.
>
I think some of the ideas are a bit far-fetched, but from a fictional, game
mechanics' POV, very nice....
-K
