Explain the process of climate change and its consequences on agriculture and habitation in Europe and Eurasia in the fourteenth century

Question

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Answer 1

A. Process of climate change
1. a cool period of fluctuating but relatively low temperatures began in
the Arctic in the thirteenth century
2. ice cap crept southward
3. usually slow but can become perceptible suddenly
B. Consequences on habitation
1. people in Europe began to feel the cold, along with other
unaccustomed weather
2. disruption of shipping by growing and moving glaciers
3. Thames River in London froze
4. as cities lost food death rates rose in Belgium
5. calamitous flooding and coastal erosion became common around the
North Sea
6. accumulated abundance that fueled Mongol conquests in the previous
century ran out and the Mongol world began to contract
7. China experienced exceptionally severe winters for 36 of the fourteenth
century's 100 years
C. Consequences on agriculture
1. farmers abandoned formally productive land in England
2. encroaching glaciers forced farmers into retreat in Norway
3. heavy rains fell over northern Europe, wrecking crops, inflicting famine
4. famines struck some part of China in every year of the reign of the
Shun Ti emperor