The Little Ice Age
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The Little Ice Age was a period of cooling between the 1300s and 1800s where average temperatures dropped by 4 degrees globally. It affected areas across the Northern Hemisphere and was coldest between the late 1500s to early 1700s. Potential causes included reduced sunspots, increased volcanic activity, and changes in ocean currents. The effects of the Little Ice Age included the demise of Viking settlements, destroyed cereal crops in Europe leading to famine and disease like the bubonic plague spreading more widely.
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Climatehistorylittleiceagedaddyoflexi The Little Ice Age was a period from the 14th to 19th centuries characterized by colder global temperatures. Colder weather negatively impacted agriculture in Europe, leading populations to depend more on beer and liquor instead of vulnerable grape vineyards. The damp, cold conditions also contributed to widespread famine and disease outbreaks like the plague. Potential causes of the Little Ice Age included reduced sun radiation, volcanic eruptions, and changes in ocean currents.
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Little ice age.Kasi Bartels The Little Ice Age was an acute ice age that occurred between the 14th and 19th centuries, changing the world in unexpected ways. It destroyed the Spanish Armada, caused famine in Paris that led to the French Revolution, and caused Americans to drink 11 times more beer than wine. Potential causes included unusual solar activity, heightened volcanic activity that blocked sunlight, and increased carbon dioxide uptake after the Black Death. The Little Ice Age significantly impacted agriculture by damaging crops and livestock with cold temperatures and parasites that thrived under snow cover.
Little ice age by Rachel Shidler
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The Little Ice Age (In Place of Final Essay)jake flores In the mid-17th century, a massive glacier was advancing towards a French village, threatening to destroy it. Known as the Little Ice Age, this period from the 14th to 19th centuries brought unusually cold conditions to Europe and North America, including two feet of snow falling in New England in the summer months. The freezing weather led to millions of deaths across civilization and helped fuel major historical events like the French Revolution. The Little Ice Age peaked in the late 1600s but glaciers continued advancing into the mid-18th century due to decreased solar activity and increased volcanic activity altering the climate.
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Little Ice Age
Little Ice Agemo22 The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that occurred between the 13th and 19th centuries. It led to colder winters in parts of Europe and North America, with glaciers advancing and freezing of rivers and harbors. Farmers experienced failed harvests and food shortages during this time, leading to widespread famine, disease, and loss of life. Significant historical events like the French invasion of the Netherlands were made possible by unusually cold winters and frozen waterways during the Little Ice Age.
The little ice age
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Little ice age
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The Little Ice Age
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- 1. THE LITTLE ICE AGETHOMAS MARINELLIHIST 141/50587
- 2. What was the Little Ice Age?The Little Ice Age was a “cooling period” that followed the Medieval Warm Period.This event sparked a lot of historical events throughout the Northern Hemisphere. The average temperature was lowered 4 degrees with drastic freezing periods during the colder months. In 1816, one of the freezing periods lasted so long, that year became known as the “Year Without a Summer.”
- 3. When the Ice Age occurredThe Little Ice Age occurred between the 1300’s and 1800’s.Everyone from North America, all the way to Russia was affected by the Little Ice Age during these times. The coldest of these times were recorded to be around the late 1500’s to the near 1700’s.
- 4. The Cause of the Little Ice AgeThere are many different theories on what caused the Little Ice Age. Some ideas as to what caused this ice age have to do with reduced sun spots, heightened volcanic activity, and ocean current circulation. The most closely proven of these theories is the one about ocean circulation because it is believed that the Medieval Warm Period melted the North Atlantic Glaciers; which changed the density of the water, and not allowing warm air to rise and circulate over Western Europe.
- 5. The Little Ice Age’s Effect on HistoryThe Little Ice Age brought the demise to the Vikings by freezing over their passage ways to the surrounding world.It destroyed cereal crops, which were the staple of the European diet at the time. The famine that stemmed from the destruction of Europe’’s cereal crops sparked the French Revolution, the introduction of the potato to Europe and allowed the Bubonic Plague to spread even more easily across the weakened population.
- 6. SourcesDocumentary film Little Ice Age: Big ChillGoogle ImagesWikipedia: Little Ice Agehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_ice_age