Western Civilization I / Unit 17 WC1 1602 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Little Ice Age and the General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
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The idea
A cooling from the fourteenth century deepened from fifteen seventy, worst about sixteen hundred to forty, the war's decades: failed harvests, famine, the anchor's six hundred thirty percent rise in English grain. Historians call it a general crisis, the anchor says.
In practice
The anchor's ninety percent of years at war.
Where people slip
Climate as cause is attributed. The figures are the anchor's.
Your place on the trail
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