World History › Section N · Crisis and new empires, 1300-1500 › Topic N.2
Famine, climate change, and migration
In the decades before the Black Death, a cooling and less stable climate met societies with little food to spare. Using tree rings, ice cores and old account books, historians can now trace how bad weather became hunger, and how hunger set people moving.
In this topic
- Weather that changed history
- Reading past climates
- From warm to cool
- Why the climate shifted
- Europe on the edge
- The Great Famine, 1315 to 1317
- Worked example: counting the dead at Ypres
- The cattle plague
- People on the move
- Worked example: why did the Ancestral Puebloans move?
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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