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Jun 29, 2026 39 min

Ep 252: Things Could Be Worse! - 536 CE

from Doomed to Fail Hosted by Taylor Pineiro, Farz Sokhansanj

Let's talk about the 'worst year to be alive,' it's not this one - it's 536 CE! Of course, that's just a guess, but it's an educated guess because we know that there was a volcano that blotted out the sun - and THAT was the beginning of a mini-ice age that ushered in famine, mass migration, wars, and the plague! Some Sources Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age (536 to around 660 CE) https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/072ba4aa-014e-4f87-8fc7-334ebf876f1f Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive' https://www.science.org/content/article/why-536-was-worst-year-be-alive Join our Founders Club on Patreon to get ad-free episodes for life! patreon.com/DoomedtoFailPod We would love to hear from you! Please follow along! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doomedtofailpod/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/doomedtofailpod Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@doomedtofailpod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@doomed.to.fail.pod Email: [email protected]

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Let's talk about the 'worst year to be alive,' it's not this one - it's 536 CE! Of course, that's just a guess, but it's an educated guess because we know that there was a volcano that blotted out the sun - and THAT was the beginning of a mini-ice age that ushered in famine, mass migration, wars, and the plague!

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