GEOL 105 Lecture 8: Chapter 18
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Approximate 300 year period (1000 to 1300), earth was considerably warmer than normal, known as the. Followed by the little ice age (lia): mid 1400 to. 1700, difficult for people in southeast asia and western. The collapse of the ankorian civilization part due to the onset of the lia (cid:1) Crop failures in western europe during the lia, the population devastated by the black plague about 1400 (cid:1) (cid:1) Famous viking explorer eric the red"s voyage near the end of the tenth century, a period of warm climate (medieval warming period) (cid:1) The vikings colonized iceland, greenland, and northern north america (cid:1) Sea temperature probably 4 degrees c ( 7 degrees. Little ice age started early fourteenth century, creating treacherous sea conditions, famine, spread of the black plague (cid:1) Climate changes believed to cause the abandonment of viking settlements in north america and.
