Medieval Weather in Europe
Medieval tapestry (Cluny Museum, Paris) - medieval weather Early Medieval cold period Some people say that the cause of the fall of the Roman empire in the West around 400 AD was [...]
Medieval tapestry (Cluny Museum, Paris) - medieval weather Early Medieval cold period Some people say that the cause of the fall of the Roman empire in the West around 400 AD was [...]
Bedouin tents today in the Arabian peninsula: Islamic environment Early medieval environment We can divide the environmental history of the medieval Islamic Empire into three different phases. The early phase, [...]
An Indian man selling mangoes When people first came to India, about 60,000 BC, they found some plants that they already knew about, like figs and onions. There were also a lot of new [...]
Indian animals: A white cow Cows and bulls Cattle were probably the most important animals in India for people. They came to India originally from Central Asia. Indian people did [...]
Indian Monsoon - early Indian environment The monsoon was the big weather event In much of India, there was only one big weather event every year, and that was the monsoon. Most [...]
Ancient Greek climate: The island of Rhodes Good fishing Fishing was very important to early Stone Age people, and fishing is probably what brought the first people to [...]
Greek weather and environment: a map of Greece Weather changed with the seasons The weather in ancient Greece, like the weather in most places, changed with the seasons. Greek weather [...]
Black Forest in Northern Europe: the early European environment had a lot of forests like this one. Not so different from Central Asia When people first arrived in northern Europe [...]
Coal plant in China: causing global warming When did global warming start? Human activities probably started to affect the world's climate as early as about 10,000 BC. That's when people [...]
Did climate change cause a Bronze Age crisis? Tomb stela of Nemti-ui, from the First Intermediate Period. The stele's only painted, not carved, because people couldn't afford carving after the climate [...]