What is the closest thing in human history to an Apocalypse with a complete downfall of civilization?

Native americans post columbian exchange. Diseases collapsed societies north to south and wiped out millions of people. Jungles and forest overtook the land again which lent to the myth of an untouched virgin wilderness. Natives today are basically survivors of a post apocalyptic world.

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Only non-brainlet post in this thread.

What?

the mongol invasion, enitre areas just fucking cleansed of life

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory#Genetic_bottleneck_theory

> The Toba eruption has been linked to a genetic bottleneck in human evolution about 70,000 years ago, which may have resulted from a severe reduction in the size of the total human population due to the effects of the eruption on the global climate.

> According to the genetic bottleneck theory, between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago, human populations sharply decreased to 3,000–10,000 surviving individuals.It is supported by genetic evidence suggesting that today's humans are descended from a very small population of between 1,000 and 10,000 breeding pairs that existed about 70,000 years ago.

escalations in Cold War like the Cuban missile crisis
Also Climate Change

If you read Graham Hancock he suggests that flooding at the end of the last ice age destroyed somewhat advanced societies that were located on a coastline that's now under 400 feet of water.
But I assume that Veeky Forums has a low opinion of Graham since Veeky Forums has a low opinion of pretty much everything.

All the times during the cold war that people almost launched nukes at each other due to shit like malfunctioning equipment or misreading enemy practice exercises as preparations for invasion. Only since the invention of MAD have we had the power to fuck over all civilisation everywhere

That eruption set us back thousands of years in terms of progress. Geological events are much worse than any disease or war

You have any links to his work or opinions?

Islam and the Plague.
Pay attention there's a connection here.

Not really apocalyptic, but I'd wager to say that culture would have been set back a fair amount if Persia had subjugated Greece

Persia was more culturally advanced than the greeks island

t. Iranian nationalist

Toba event
also this

If you want a real answer read the amazing book 1177 The Year Civilization Collapsed but if you want a typical answer for this site either when Donitz surrendered or the creation of the Jewish state.

>Fisher, the expedition’s chief archaeologist, a professor of anthropology at Colorado State University, in Fort Collins, and an authority on both LIDAR and Mesoamerican culture, would eventually uncover close to five hundred sculptures and fragments in an area no larger than two hundred square feet. The objects had been left all at the same time, probably when the city was abandoned. Most of the artifacts had been ritually smashed, a common practice in the Americas for goods placed in a grave, to release their spirits. Also of significance was the statue positioned in the center of the cache—a half-human, half-vulture figure that probably represented a shaman or priest in a transformed state. Vultures, in the ancient world of Honduras, were a symbol of death and the transition to the spiritual world.
>Taken together, these clues suggested that this was not a grave for an individual; it was the cenotaph for the entire city. Around 1500, something catastrophic appeared to have happened in T1 that triggered the abandonment of the city, with the survivors leaving this cache as a final offering to their gods before they departed.
I don't see how anyone could argue with the total collapse of South American cities after the introduction of European diseases.

For places that aren't Persia, India or east Asia, the fall of Rome around the time of the hunnic invasions. Even the eastern empire and to an extent Persia would felt the preasure of barbarian hordes. The mongols are similar although I think that the world was more interconnected and had multiple less important states that point so if one small kingdom was destroyed, people would move to the neighboring one.

This. After nearly two millenia of civilizations across the MidEast and Mediteranean building monuments that still slightly baffle us today, they all just collapse so relatively suddenly and the causes still aren't entirely clear. Spooky.

That time in 9,500 b.c. when that strain of proto-smallpox decimated most human tribes on earth leading to the mutation of the human genome that caused what became white people to appear on the scene

T. Xerxes

This.

Nearly isn't good enough.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_conquest_of_Khwarezmia

t. joakim brodén

We would all be living in a better world if that happened.

Link?

The current third world baby boom.

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>not a reddit word

>What is the closest thing in human history to an Apocalypse with a complete downfall of civilization?

The Bible obviously.

90% worthless book regarded as the most important book.

youtube.com/watch?v=LzLZMJxgWk4

If by "us" you mean classcucks and porkies then no. But I wish it did.

how true is this really?

The Bronze Age Collapse.

Late Maya collapse?

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what did he mean by this? And how the fuck do you even know this you bitch ass nig?

The Younger Dryas impact.

The Black Death

this

Go away John

Bronze age collapse or if cuba crisis went wrong, probably.

>For places that aren't Persia, India or east Asia,
And Egypt

Prior to civilization, the human race went through a bottlenecking where a large number (majority?) of us died from what is assumed natural disasters. Since then we have been rather successful. Our genes are less diverse than a house fly's individual to individual I believe.

Funnily enough, the collapse of communism was also a disaster in many areas.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident

this in modern times

This.

More like pre-columbian exchange.

We would've never been able to conquer North America if it wasn't for the absolute best timing after that.

It was pre-Columbian, but metal as fuck. Any good sources on it?

Good post

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