Climate Change, Chaos, and The Little Ice Age: Crash Course World History #206

In which John Green teaches you about the Little Ice Age. The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that occurred from the 13th to the 19th centuries. This cooling was likely caused by a number of factors, including unusual solar activity and volcanic eruptions. The Little Ice Age greatly impacted human social orders, especially during the 17th century. When the climate changed, and the weather became unpredictable, the world changed profoundly. Poor harvests led to hunger, which led to even less productivity, which even resulted in violent upheaval in a lot of places. All this from a little change in the temperature? Definitely.

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[SparrowwithaMachinegun]

"We're trying to educate the world for free, that of course requires money"

Ha!, sad but true.

[HourSleepHeartAttack]

'History is never controversial'

[nickhao]

The funniest part of this episode was "history is not controversial"

[fngrLCKNgood]

This series is a cut above most other educational content i've indulged here on Youtube. Everyone responsible for it truly deserve a pat on the back.

[crashcourse]

In which John Green teaches you about the Little Ice Age. The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that occurred from the 13th to the 19th centuries. This cooling was likely caused by a number of factors, including unusual solar activity and volcanic eruptions. The Little Ice Age greatly  impacted human social orders, especially during the 17th century. When the climate changed, and weather became unpredictable, the world changed profoundly. Poor harvests led to hunger, which led to even less productivity, which even resulted in violent upheaval in a lot of places. All this from a little change in the temperature? Definitely.

[Mitsunosai]

Really glad to see a new Crash Course World History as not only do I get more of an awesome thing, but it also means you are feeling better. Welcome back, I missed the updates while you were sick.

[ellamould]

does anyone else just watch these videos for fun?? I love them so much they dont even feel educational they are just super interesting :D

[lloydy]

As a plant scientist, I am working on things I hope will lead to the 'cast iron ploughs of the future'. Probably not, but I'm trying. 

[Mokofooja]

"We're talking about history, and history is never controversial."

Every time.

I can't stop laughing every time I hear that line. Absolute genius.

[TybrosionMojito]

APPA!!!!

At 5:12 he flies by.... You are my hero.

[Fireburnin]

2:58 - 3:16 Europa Universalis Taught me all of that :3

[kered]

2:12: The viking expansion occurred during the Medieval Warm Period, not the Little Ice Age. The vikings discovered America a good 300 years before the onset of the Little Ice Age. In fact, the viking expansion could only have occurred during the Medieval Warm Period, because it was caused by an increase in population pressures in the Norse homelands due to the warmer weather. When the weather cooled, the vikings stop expanding and even abandoned their settlements in Greenland (which was no longer suitable to their lifestyle).

This is really a pretty significant factual error, I'm disappointed to see it in this great series.

[abrahamm]

"Some blamed it on witches, always a safe bet." LMAO

[rifow]

The thing I find very interesting about this (as an AS Level British history student who recently studied 17th century britian) is that none of this really effected british economy. In the 17th century britian began to monopalise in our colonialism in the americas and in east India. We also brought about better agricultural techniques and created a new agricultural revolution. We also had a huge increase in population. Our population doubled from 2.5 million in 1600 to 5 million in 1688. We also found a decrease in disease and a better isolation of disease to stop any epidemics. The lesser gentry (the middle class) were also on the rise in this period with the rise of merchants and professions who became MP (members of parliament) later on in life showing their gain in power and influence. In fact in 1649 we decided that we wanted a republic and got rid of our King in favour of the gentry. In 1653 Cromwell a member of the lesser gentry became the lord protector of britian. Britian enjoyed a stable economy through out the 17th century. This completely contrasts to the evidence you show in this video. I believe the reason for this is that britian was able to fall back on imperialism to secure the economy when many other countries were unable to.

[SkinMotionCreator]

Did anyone see the avatar go across the screen at 5:12

[OrlovKruskayev]

"Where's all your food?"
"Well, the whole planet is colder, not just Korea."
And then they were already there and decided to have a Dinasty.

That could be an ending to a book.

[therealsijaraeubanks]

I just wanna say thanks cause I've been BINGING on crash course world and US history all quarantine long and its great

[TonytheTaiwaneseTurtle]

actually, there WAS a snowball era in Earth's history
-> geologists are more creative in naming things than historians

[okiedokie]

Don't tell me this is the same guy that wrote Fault in our Stars.

[gibbygibbs]

When John complained about the U.S. Winter.... Please come to Canada, there was a 15 feet snow pile covering a huge part of my road one week when I didn't even go to school because we had 5 snow days In a row