The Little Ice Age: No More Food - World History - Part 2 - Extra History
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The King's servants are in search of food. Crops have failed and bread prices soar. Livestock has perished and hunger is fueling desperation. The Little Ice Age has cast its frosty grip on the land and the relentless downpour has brought a kingdom to their knees. Experience this harrowing tale of the Great Famine of 1315-1317, one of northern Europe's most catastrophic crises. 🌧️👑
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already excitedly anticipating part 3!! it's been a good series so far
Well as soon as they expand to my country I might give them a try.
Hi.
I didnt get sense on the timeline. Could you please work on that?
I'm used to the Little Ice Age being a passing note in history, usually not going much deeper than "food shortages caused by..." Seeing a deep dive into how it overturned daily life all around the world is a lot of fun.
Thank you! When you look at the bigger picture you can really see how it impacted everyone and changed history.
Also sobering as it's a reminder of what climate change can do, even if temperatures deviate by only a couple degrees.
@@Coffeepanda294 Yup. One seemingly minor wrench in the machine and the long chain of cause and effect can make things go sideways in even the most unexpected places.
"Lot of fun" ... Meanwhile the people who died when listening to this from afterlife 💀
When I was getting my history degree, decades ago, I read a book called The Little Ice Age, by Brian Fagan, that is an excellent examination of the era which you might be interested in reading if you find it an interesting part of history.
What i find interesting is that extra history is slowly forming a network by covering so many events and great people, leading to the ability to get from one topic to the next, branching out and meeting again
Really cool if you've been watching them from the beginning.
@@LuccianoBartoliniYep, I've been watching since about 6 months after the Punic War series went up.
@@Julianna.Domina Same
History content is all part of the same extended universe. That's what makes it fun. :)
we've been getting knee deep in all the lore and world building
7:18 I was just reading about Doggers a while back. I looked up the term after hearing the song "Sailing Over the Dogger Bank"- it refers to a large sandbar in the seas north of Europe where dogger boats would routinely fish. I also learned that the Dogger Bank is the highest point of a lost continent named "Doggerland", which most likely was flooded over due to a massive rockslide along Scandinavia triggering huge tsunamis. Apparently a lot of fossilized remains of mammoths as well as ancient human artifacts like spears and whatnot are found beneath the water there as well. Fascinating stuff!
Tony Robinson did a show about Doggerland, I don't recall now if it was an episode of Time Team or a side-project he did, but it was quite interesting.
Doggerland sunked under the waters of the North Sea at the end of the last Ice Age.
Up until then you could literally walk between Britain and the Netherlands.
Doggerland was a migration route for the wooly mammoth, and even predators of this beast traveled along, namely humans.
BBC was doing a series of documentaries starting in 1999, when they made their famous Walking with Dinosaurs, then later expanded from Mesozoic era to encompass the Paleozoic era in Walking with Monsters, and then the Neozoic in Walking with Beasts.
The whole BBC series is still a good overall presentation of Evolution.
In Walking with Beasts there is an episode about the wooly mammoth and Doggerland is indeed mentioned in that episode. Also humans, but only as they relate to the journey of the wooly mammoth as their occasional predators.
It’s crazy to think how recent this is, and how close humanity is to going through it again. We still spend so much of our time just trying to make enough food to survive and we in wealthy countries throw so much of it away.
What's also interesting is that the 30 Years War and France destabilizing into multiple religious wars in tbe late 1500s happened in the middle of this.
Plugging the 30 Years War series, that fourth horseman had a very powerful ally.
By the way, that 30 Years War series is one of my favorites.
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Hi! Mainer here! In the early 90s, we had a series of freak heatwave during the summers, and then later that decade we had some of the worst ice storms on record. Even today the climate shifts are such that our "new normal" is that of North Carolina in the late 80s. The climate line has moved That. Far. North. In 35 years.
Me too
3:45 - we could, until a freezer failed at the University of Alberta. Good-bye 80,000 years of ice. They can replace it, but the people seeing the price to do so had a chilly expression.
One of the most famous Hungarian kings, Matthias Corvinus was elected king (long story...) in 1458 on the frozen Danube. I don't know the exact numbers, but most of the noblemen were all there. The Danube was frozen so solid, that it could easily support a whole crowd. I grew up there. I have never seen a single piece of ice on the Danube.
While the weather and his failed wars may have been factors, the fact that Edward 2 became one of the richest kings in Christendom by outright robbing his subjects blind without pretext was probably the main reason.
Mind you for an already hated king, a ‘look how bad the weather is, God is cursing this kingdom because of our bad king’ makes a very handy excuse to get rid of him.
At the same time that Edward II was having issues in England, Louis X of France tried to invade Flanders in 1315 to re-impose royal authority there. The unending rain, which caused every road to be deep mud and the rivers to flood, as well as the lack of food for the army for the same reasons Edward II couldn't find bread, caused the invasion to go nowhere, so he was forced to just turn around and go home, having accomplished precisely nothing, after only a few weeks.
This mini series has connected so many global events inside my brain..... I feel like I'm seeing in colour for the first time. Kind of weird but only way to describe the feeling.
This era of extreme famine helped to create the tale of Hansel and Gretel, and we're going to see some witches burning on the next episode... Interesting, to say the least.
7:58 Mainer here! We have a Fort made during the French and Indian War era that is used to give tours and examples of what life was back then. We have to work in the clothes of the time in the summer heat, it got so bad someone had to be sent away in an ambulance due to dehydration. Just shows just how bad it would be for them during that time.
I am exhausted after the gym and just got home with this queued up.
I did NOT expect to feel confusion when my exhausted brain heard EH mention the city/town i live in as the first words of the video x3
Great to see this talked about on a global scale.
I love this series! Even being relatively well versed in history i hadn't really thought about just how many massively important events were influenced by the little ice age. It's fascinating.
There has been a lot of discussion over the past few decades about exactly how much free will humans have, verses how much of our actions are a simple "input/output" equation where if you change the input you get a different output.
The consensus so far (such as it is, because we're early on in this line of research) is that humans largely run on autopilot. We're shaped by both nurture and nature, and that process never stops. We have some ability to just stop in our tracks, examine our situation and then change direction, but for the most part we don't do that, and instead act as (relatively complex) input/output machines.
That is to say, most of our behaviour is shaped by our genetics and environment, and we ourselves have only a modest ability to consciously change course. If times are good on a macro scale we thrive and feel good and are friendly. If times are bad, we get depressed and do bad things. Simple input/output. There is little to no actual thought behind most of our actions.
Fortunately the consensus so far says "most", not "all". We're (just barely) sufficiently conscious and self-aware that we can at least act as a guiding hand for our emotions and instincts while they autopilot us around.
4:15 Edward II was among the worst of the Plantagenets. Thank God his son Edward III, the greatest of them all saved England. Btw LOVED your 100 years war series. This one is cool too!❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you!
@@extrahistory Always! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I thought Edward II was fine, but then I’m Scottish
@@MsJayteeListens A bad king for England is a good king for Scotland
Edward II was THE worst. He did a bunch of stupid things.
I would love to someday see an extra history (mini-)series on Vasco Nunez de Balboa - the first european to discover the pacific ocean. A rebell adventurer who spent his life runing from fate (i.e. the spanish crown) and tried and ultimately failed to "escape into immortality" -as Stefan Zweig put it
Describing the idea of creating a lasting historical legacy as “escaping into immortality” is really poetic and sounds very cool
Events like this is probably what inspired George RR Martin to have “generation” long winters in Game of Thrones.
That’s a good theory..
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I've never heard of the little ice age before. Great content, as always!
Thank you!
3:02 interesting to think that the tale of "hansel and gretel" had this origin. who knows how many and what "dark origins" of children's tales. (you could see a video for the topic)
Was literally watching the first episode of this when you guys just put out the second one
Very Poggers Video!
For a time period that is defined by transition, framing the late medieval period around the little ice age... works.
So the fishers made new ships called doggers? Is that why the sunken plain between Britain and Denmark is called Doggerland?
Specifically because of Dogger Bank, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's why it's called that.
Hansel and Gretal, called it!
I've heard that a very effective way to improve your well-being is to think of something you're grateful for every day. Today's exercise isn't very hard: I'm glad I didn't get to live during the little ice ice 😮
We as a species like to think that everything important happens as a result of human action. Yet sometimes we are just getting dragged along.
I have been to Maine in summer. The heat might not be deadly in an average summer, but the insects might suck you dry!
Good thing there are plenty of rivers and lakes to cool off in. And the ocean is liquid ice!
I wonder if the Little Ice Age also contributed to the decline of the Mississippian Culture in the Americas.
wasn't that caused by smallpox?
@@manticore2804 No the Mississippian Culture largely declined before the Europeans arrived. Most of their settlements like Cahokia were already abandoned.
"If rumors were true... each other."
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!
For context: Edward II was killed by having a red-hot poker shoved where the sun don't shine.
Yikes!
Something they didn't show in Braveheart!
5:00 The fact that food accessibility became significantly less reliable in this period probably also didn't help with the spread of the Plague since being starved does a number on your health and immune system.
Now, wwe can replicate those wild swings year-round with our crbom emissions
Holy shut, hanzel and gretel is based on historic events.
Love your videos, love from romania
man it is a shame we don't discuss this enough in historical circles
With the bread gone and the circuses gone, it's a wonder more monarchs didn't fall.
I was immensely saddened by the tumbnail. Poor sheep
It's finally here hooray
I love history and I am so happy for extra history
The Rowinoke colonies was a wrighting assistant I had in middle school. We had to make up a story for what happened to it. The range was from possible to aliens and magical creatures.
I think that it might be a bit of a stretch to say that the hunt for fish lead to the exploration of the new world, it makes the gap between the European fishery and North American fishery seem much smaller than it was. It's also very disappointing to go from talking about the Grand Banks where Cabot said there was so much cod they could be caught by dipping a basket in the water and were so thick it supposedly slowed boats and lead to Newfoundland being settle and fought over as a colony to catch and salt cod for Europe. To instead talk about a place where cod "were practically abundant" of Cape Cod.
The rain sounds like Australia last year
Anyone have any good links/sources about the early basque fishermen who sailed to North american in the same pursuit of cod? It was my understanding that they predated most other europeans of the era, though obviously not in such large numbers as northern european fishermen.
I haven’t watched extra history in a long time so I’m so I’m binging a bunch of videos this is video 3
Ok I am confused. About 3/4 of the way through we suddenly jump to Roanoke and various places in the Americas even though we were discussing things happening in the 1300s, before non-vikings reached the hemisphere. (I know people were here before then, but they don't talk about people who were there in the 1300s contemporaneous to the earlier topic, they talk about Roanoke and later).
In the first video, it's stated that the Little Ice Age covered 1350-1850, though the exact dates are disputed. Meteorological time scales are sometimes not a good match for the time scales of human history. So there will be some jumping around during the time period.
watching this again while trying to survive a SERIOUS heat wave on the west coast.
❤ great video thank you so much keep up your amazing work thank you❤
Please do the glorious revolution!!!!!
I think the issue folks living at that time were more concerned with was the fact that they didn't have arms.
Oh the irony of how some people today don't yet realize that our current climate change catastrophe will make the Little Ice Age look like a summer picnic...
People have been yelling that the sky is falling since the 1960's. It's why an ever growing number of people have stopped taking the hysteria seriously. Too many deadlines have come and gone.
My advice when it comes to things like this is to use your head. If the people telling you that there is a catastrophe and to give them all your money and freedom are not living under the same rules something fishy is going on. Take Covid it was an emergency and some regulations however some politicians basically house arrested their entire populations why they went out and party when you see this then there is some bull crap going on. We probably have 80 years to fix this which is plenty of time giving education and market to make better technologies. Those telling us to live like the people under CCP are full of crap.
So much bad weather
I love the NE shoutouts
I am in Maine right now. To be fair we die at like 100 degrees F
Maybe the plague needed a cold climate
This is an important part of Greenland history
Maine gets really humid in the summer and the bugs are so thick you’d think you’re in hell
You can measure temperature by how hard frost is, how long plants flower, when you can plant so farmers likely noticed but blamed sin
According to my understanding the current consensus about the Little Ice is that it was only a small local weather phenomenon that only affected Europe. In any case, it is not a valid argument against climate change and it doesn't negate our effect on the climate, even though the video didn't claim that. But just to be sure.
Glaciers grew in the European Alps,New Zealand, Alaska, and the southern Andes during the littleiceage. In China, it contributed to the fall of the Ming dynasty.
Props on the video. Did YT demonetize you? I didn't see an ad before.
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Speaking of disease and exploration, I wonder if it impacted the way disease swept through the native populations of the Americas.
7:57 As a floridian who once spent a month in Maine during summer. EXCUSE ME HOW.
Welcome to 17th century America! XD
As a Queenslander who's lived in the UK, I've had similar questions.
I love your work maybe work You can do Albanian history
i will forever read "the little ice age" to the tune of "my little dark age"
Ok I live in Maine and loved that line
Great video.
We get a lot of rain here in the uk (no joke, we get a lot more rain than some other places would find normal), so to hear that rain causes famines, it’s understandable though still amazing. (Also I live in the uk, I know about our weather, it doesn’t make any sense)
The famine and canibalism are mentioned in Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose
Correction south a,erica is also the new world
Do you know what killed the dinosaurs?
To be fair all those Mainer redheads pretty much burst into flames any time it's above 90°.
Makes sense… God doesn’t like it when you lose to France.
Nice 🎉
Well, well, well, a lot of weird weather before the postmodern CO2 crisis.
Can you please do one on tying knot in the devil's tail
My Little Dark Age.....
Autoplay every single time I finish part 2: Thats enough of that. Can we watch something else? No? Fine, but let me catch you look away..
Would you mind sharing thst reference for the origin of Hansel and Gretel? Cheers.
Dying from heat stroke in Maine is actually Nuts💀💀💀
Blaming the failure of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island is a real stretch of a theory.
1:29 you guys missed Zealand from Denmark
At 0:37. In traditional Chinese and Confucian thought, King Edward II was clearly losing the Mandate of Heaven. Heaven was displeased so it rained tremendously, which caused floods and famine. The people were thus validated in overthrowing him, for Heaven was no longer on Edward's side. The same thing was happening on the other side of the world, in China proper, where the Chinese peasantry quickly overthrew the ruling Mongol Yuan Dynasty in 1367 and 1368. The reigning Mongols had also lost the Mandate of Heaven.
Weirdly enough the little ice age was not really much of anything but it devastated the entire earth. I mean imagine what the next glacial maximum would be like
Oh yeah and we’re also currently in an ice age since there’s ice on the poles but the “little ice age” was technically just a period of strange weather but it sounds cooler so
I do have to wonder, given the dates, if our interglacial period was actually ending and we were heading to an ice age again, only to be interrupted due to co2 emissions in the second half of the 19th century and further more on the 20th century all the way to today were we are heading to temperatures not seen since the cretaceous
Lets just be thankfull that we will not be here to expirience the worst efects of all this mess.........
To our future succesors: Yeah! Sorry! We really *ucked up, didn`t we?
Where did the small narrator from the kursk go
Interesting
6:31 the “mystery” of the missing Roanoke clan was solved. As is the case for a great many things, no one bothered to ask the local Native American tribes. They were adopted in and intermarried with the natives. It was never a mystery to the local tribes there. But of course the educated historians never even bothered to ask
Can I just mention that I used to live near St Albans and I'm sorry but there is no area as flat as it is portrayed here 😅
It's St Albans ahaha. I love seeing my hometown on ET though!
Can you do a video about Hernando de Soto
What was going on across the rest of the world at this time?
Why is it whenever Maine gets mentioned it's only bad things
Little Dark Age < Little Ice Age
Its also interesting to think that since the climate was ateibuted to God and medieval kings were legitimised as being chosen by God to rule its possible that consecutive generations of kings having "angared God" could have helped into caused revolts and rebelions
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