Little Ice Age (1300-1850)

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Little Ice Age (1300-1850)
@Nikolai Miazin, PhD in History

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Medieval Warm Period (950-1250)
Soft winter and stable climate:
• New land cultivation.
• Made vine in south England
• European population increase
from 38 to 75 millions

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Causes of global cooling in 1300
• The speed of warm Golfstream has slowed
Sun activity reduced.
• The more cooling - the more snow - the
more sunbeams reflections - the more
cooling

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Great Famine (1315-1317)
Cold and rainy summers:
• decline harvests of wheat
• hay rotted and cattle died
• orchards frosted
• Up to 10 % of population
starved to death.
• Starvation - the reason of
global immunity decline

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Black Death (1346-1353)
1346-1353 - greatest plague pandemic
in Europe:
• 1/3 of population died of the plague
• cities were depopulated
• entered the Dance macabre culture
Dance Macabre

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Bright side of Black Death
• revision the ideology and begin
the Renaissance
• depopulation increased cost
abolish serfdom in Europe
of
work

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Climate stabilization (1370-1600)
• Climate became warmer and more stable
• Winter were quite long
• Last Viking settlement in England abandoned
in 1408

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Huaynaputina eruption and the Time of Trouble in Russia
1600 great eruption Huaynaputina in Peru:
• 1601-1603 great starvation in Russia
• 1604 impostor False Dmitrii invade to Russia

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1600 - new cooling
1600-1850 coldest period for 2 thousand
years:
Thames frost fair 1683-1684
cooling shorten agriculture season
cooling shorten pasture season
frost in summer can ruin the harvest
Revolution of agricultural methods and
potato helped survive in cold climate
conditions

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1816 – year without summer
1815 great Tambora eruption in
Indonesia:
• In 1816 Temperature decreased on
one year
in the whole world
• Worst starvation in 19th Century
• For the reason of high cost of oats
In 1817 invented bicycle
• For the reason of long rains Byron
created the history of vampire of
modern city and Marry Shelly wrote
Frankenstein's monster
reedith haze