What is the closest thing in human history to an Apocalypse with

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The creation of Communism

Probably not recorded because it hasn't happened. Not even close.

>>2994574
Christ, that picture is obnoxious.
>>>/r/eddit

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>>2994586
He's got a point though. Communism did nearly end up fucking us all over.

Bronze age collapse

>>2994591
No it didn't. Shit ideology for homos and fags, but never nearly destroyed civilization.
One sentence quips for (you)'s (AKA upvotes) and frogposting is reddit.

>>2994569
Sea People Invasion
Black Death

Had either Byzantium or the Frank's faltered against the spread of Islam.

>>2994569
Cuba Crisis, or anything that came close to nuclear war. It'd be the most destructive and the time period fits, since a significant part of the world had urbanized by the time MAD became a thing. Even if everyone didn't die from the immediate blast or fell sick after, the infrastructure would be in such a shitter that there would be widespread starvation.

>>2994569
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.

>>2994963

hello cracked article

>>2994593
Only non-brainlet post in this thread.

>>2994972
What?

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the mongol invasion, enitre areas just fucking cleansed of life

>>2994569

https://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

>>2994569
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 /his/ has a low opinion of Graham since /his/ 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

>>2995068
That eruption set us back thousands of years in terms of progress. Geological events are much worse than any disease or war

>>2995659
You have any links to his work or opinions?

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>>2994569
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

>>2996562
Persia was more culturally advanced than the greeks island

>>2996582
t. Iranian nationalist

>>2994569
Toba event
>>2994574
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.

>>2994569
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.

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>>2994593
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.

>>2994569
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

>>2996582
T. Xerxes

>>2996715
This.

>>2994591
Nearly isn't good enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_conquest_of_Khwarezmia

>>2996562
>>2996608
>>2996979
t. joakim brodén

>>2996562
We would all be living in a better world if that happened.

>>2996959
Link?

>>2994569

The current third world baby boom.

>>2994586
>obnoxious
>not a reddit word

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>>2994569
>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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzLZMJxgWk4

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>>2994591
If by "us" you mean classcucks and porkies then no. But I wish it did.

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>>2994963
how true is this really?

>>2994569
The Bronze Age Collapse.

Late Maya collapse?

>>2997203
>reddit word
what did he mean by this? And how the fuck do you even know this you bitch ass nig?

>>2994569
The Younger Dryas impact.

>>2994569
The Black Death

>>2994574
this

>>2997142
Go away John

>>2994569
Bronze age collapse or if cuba crisis went wrong, probably.

>>2996758
>For places that aren't Persia, India or east Asia,
And Egypt

>>2994569
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.

>>2994574
Funnily enough, the collapse of communism was also a disaster in many areas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident

this in modern times

>>2994574
This.

>>2994963
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.

>>2994963

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

>>2994574
Good post

>>2997628
Seething poorfag detected