{"product_id":"b0hffpxh49","title":"Weather of Empire: How Shifting Climate Built Empires, Toppled Dynasties, and Redrew the Map of History (The Forces That Shaped Us Book 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmpires don't only fall to armies. They fall to the sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor ten thousand years, the weather has been the quietest and deadliest force in human history. A few degrees of warming built Rome. A few degrees of cooling starved dynasties, emptied cities, and toppled the mightiest empires on earth — and the people living through it almost never knew why.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWeather of Empire , Book Two of The Forces That Shaped Us, is the true story of how shifting climate built empires, toppled dynasties, and redrew the map of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInside, you'll discover:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow the end of the Ice Age invented farming — and civilization itself The centuries-long drought that destroyed the world's very first empire The warm spell that let Rome conquer a continent — and the cooling that helped bury it The year without a summer that starved two hemispheres and haunted a generation How a single weather pattern — El Niño — helped kill tens of millions in the age of empire This isn't abstract climate science. It's a gripping, human account of ice cores and grain harvests, of emperors and farmers at the mercy of a sky they couldn't read — and of what it means that, for the first time,  we  are the ones changing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEverything in these pages is true, drawn from the latest science and the oldest records.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you love Jared Diamond,  Sapiens , or Peter Frankopan's  The Earth Transformed , you'll race through this — and can begin with Book One,  Terrain of Empire .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eScroll up, click Buy Now, and see the hidden force behind the rise and fall of civilizations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52817275519192,"sku":"YSL30179","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0835\/3356\/2072\/files\/81Jecd3R9RL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793083612","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmebay.com\/products\/b0hffpxh49","provider":"BookMebay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}