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When doing additional research on the Little Ice Age, I found this graph showing temperature comparisons from the Little Ice Age, Medival Warm Period, and present day.
Another interesting thing I found was this picture. It shows the Mer de Glace, a glacier in the French Alps. The picture on the left is part of a painting completed during the Little Ice Age, and the one on the right is a photo from 2000. The glacier's level lowering can be seen by the arrows.
After reading the assigned reading, I decided to do additional research on El Nino.
On NASA, I found that it is an "Abnormal warming of ocean waters in the eastern tropical Pacific...". I also found out. On this page, you can see the normal conditions of the waters of the Pacific, and on this page is a picture of the conditions during El Nino. I found out that it "usually" happens ever 3-7 years from a page called "what is el Nino anyway"
I found this five minute video that does a good job explaining plate tectonics and el Nino
I had multiple questions after this reading about the plague and the causes and effects. One word that I did not recognize was "wanderlust." It means a strong desire to travel, which makes sense if you break apart the word.
I wanted to learn more about Ibn Battuta. I found this Wikipedia article to be useful.
The reading quoted a historian named Mark Elvin. I thought I should know who he was. I didn't find a site that was all-inclusive with great information, but I did find this site.
I was wondering about the effects the plague had o the population. This site gives the population of different areas in Europe before and after the plague. It makes it easy to see the relationship between the plague and the population.
The reading said that the plague would eventually spread world wide and that certain areas weren't hit or weren't hit as badly. The book probably tells us about it later, but I am interested in how areas just as advanced as Eurasia didn't get hit with the plague. I also didn't know what a sheikh is so I looked it up quickly at this site and found out it means elder in Arabic. I also thought the Great Drowning was interesting. I did I quick search on Google for the Great Drowning and found out this cool site about the flood history of the Netherlands. I read that there were hurrican force winds and the storm created an inland sea(Zuiderzee). The storm killed 25,000 and destroyed a lot of structures in England as well. Then I kept poking around and found this site that shows the development of the Zuiderzee(the inland sea that opens to the North Sea) over many years. I was wondering if the Great Drowning is why the Netherlands has the dikes or if that was for another reason. I learned that the Great Drowning "contributing to the opening of a pre-existing topographical low in the Netherlands towards the North Sea"(http://www.climate4you.com/ClimateAndHistory%201300-1399.htm) which is why the dikes are there today.
I wanted to find a little more information on Lake Chad.
I found that Lake Chad "is a historically large, shallow lake in Africa, whose size has varied greatly over the centuries. It is economically very important, providing water to more than 20 million people living in the four countries which surround it." From a Wikipedia article.
When I searched further I found some recent news from it. It has has shrunk dramatically in the last 40 years, and scientists believe that this is not from global warming, but from human actions related to climate variation.
When it was talking about the climate change, it said that "glaciers forced farmers into retreat in Norway". I can imagine that this affected the Skandinavians greatly, in the form of a food shortage. However, for some reason, the book doesn't elaborate on this. I, unlike the book, care about the skandinavians, who were probably freezing (more than usual) and starving at the time.
After some research, there is no mention about any type of famine in Norway. However, I found out that the plague arrived at Norway on the ship, and it proceeded to whipe out 2/3 of the population.
By the way, there's a Norwegian black metal band named 1349 (for the date the plague hit Norway). I came across it to a ridiculous extent in my searches about Norway, so I figured I'd post about it.
Due to "black death norway" and "black metal" both having black in it, I was unable to find pictures any interesting pictures. They were all flooded out by numerous pictures of Norwegian black metal bands (black metal is a big part of norwegian culture).
However, HERE is an painting about the religous beliefs about the cause of the plague. It basically depicts hellish creatures (a metaphor for the plague) killing scores of the people in the painting.
I did some research on The City of the Dead. Wikipedia says that it is a four mile long cemetary in Cairo that also houses the homeless, after they were forced to leave the croweded ghettos of Cairo. According to this site, there are about 3,000 years of egyptian history covered through the graves. Here's a picture.
I had a question about the reasoning some Muslim theologians had for the plauge. In the reading it says that they were being punished for their sins. Would these sins be everyone's little sins put together? or would it be one big sin that they entire community commited?
While reading I came across the El Nino effect and wanted to learn more about it.I learned that it is called El Niño, meaning “the Child”, because it usually appears near the Christmas season. Warm surface waters flow from the central Pacific towards the eastern Pacific, suppressing the cold, nutrient-rich upwelling of the Humboldt Current off the coast of South America. This disturbance leads to a fall in the number of plankton, wreaking havoc upon the entire ocean food chain and devastating the fishing industry. You can find more aobut this at El Nino
What caused all the all of the climate changes specifically? Also wasn’t it a strain of the flu that was the plague, or a was it something else? I was really interested to see both the climate change and the plague so close together.
I was interested in the El Nino effect in the tropics. Here is a map of the world showing the results of the El Nino effect. It causes many weather phenomenons to occur. Here is more information about the floods, landslides, etc.
Here is a cite that shows the affects of the El Nino around the world. In the southeast of the US (that is us) there were tornadoes in Florida and damages to the coral reefs there as a result of the El Nino.
I was interested in how the temperature affected the spread of plague, so I found this website that talks about how each time there was a plague the temperature was warmer and more moist.
I also found this graph showing estimated temperatures from 1000-1800
I was curious on what people thought about alot of things during this time period, especially the black death, and what was causing it. I was also curious to find out about El Nino, what it was. So I first looked up El Nino first and i found out that El Nino was "is a global coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon. The Pacific ocean signatures, El Niño and La Niña are important temperature fluctuations in surface waters of the tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean." El Nino. I was also looking up causes to the black death and I found out what caused it was "caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas with the help of animals like the black rat." Black Death.
I was unsure of exactly what "lustrous" meant so I looked it up. –adjective 1. having luster; shining; luminous: lustrous eyes. 2. brilliant; splendid; resplendent; illustrious: a lustrous career
I was also unsure of what a sheikh was so I looked that up too.
1. Also, shaikh, sheikh. (in Islamic countries) the patriarch of a tribe or family; chief: a term of polite address. 2. Slang. a man held to be masterful and irresistibly charming to women.
I was also not sure of what infidel meant: Religion. a. a person who does not accept a particular faith, esp. Christianity. b. (in Christian use) an unbeliever, esp. a Muslim. c. (in Muslim use) a person who does not accept the Islamic faith; kaffir.
I was wondering why English farmers would retreat to Norway? The reading mentions that Norway, Finland and some areas in and around Greenland were affected badly by the cold or the "Little Ice Age". So, I don't get why farmers would leave England, because it was too cold and go somewhere colder.
Also, the reading says that in Central Asia the "accumulated abundance that fueled Mongol conquests in the previous century seem to have run out," and it also says that "the Mongol world began to contract." It then states that China suffered severe winters for 36 of the 100 years of the 14th century and that famines struck some part of China every year that Shun Ti was emperor (1333-1368). I was wondering if the Mandate of Heaven may have had anything to do with these occurances. China was very connected with Mongolia and if the Mandate of Heaven shifted from Mongolia it may have also shifted from China, which could have resulted in these famines and cold weather occurances. I just thought of the Mandate of Heaven when I read that. I also thought of the recent earthquake in China and how some think the Mandate of Heaven may be connected to that.
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When doing additional research on the Little Ice Age, I found this graph showing temperature comparisons from the Little Ice Age, Medival Warm Period, and present day.
Another interesting thing I found was this picture. It shows the Mer de Glace, a glacier in the French Alps. The picture on the left is part of a painting completed during the Little Ice Age, and the one on the right is a photo from 2000. The glacier's level lowering can be seen by the arrows.
After reading the assigned reading, I decided to do additional research on El Nino.
On NASA, I found that it is an "Abnormal warming of ocean waters in the eastern tropical Pacific...". I also found out. On this page, you can see the normal conditions of the waters of the Pacific, and on this page is a picture of the conditions during El Nino.
I found out that it "usually" happens ever 3-7 years from a page called "what is el Nino anyway"
I found this five minute video that does a good job explaining plate tectonics and el Nino
I had multiple questions after this reading about the plague and the causes and effects. One word that I did not recognize was "wanderlust." It means a strong desire to travel, which makes sense if you break apart the word.
I wanted to learn more about Ibn Battuta. I found this Wikipedia article to be useful.
The reading quoted a historian named Mark Elvin. I thought I should know who he was. I didn't find a site that was all-inclusive with great information, but I did find this site.
I was wondering about the effects the plague had o the population. This site gives the population of different areas in Europe before and after the plague. It makes it easy to see the relationship between the plague and the population.
The reading said that the plague would eventually spread world wide and that certain areas weren't hit or weren't hit as badly. The book probably tells us about it later, but I am interested in how areas just as advanced as Eurasia didn't get hit with the plague. I also didn't know what a sheikh is so I looked it up quickly at this site and found out it means elder in Arabic. I also thought the Great Drowning was interesting.
I did I quick search on Google for the Great Drowning and found out this cool site about the flood history of the Netherlands. I read that there were hurrican force winds and the storm created an inland sea(Zuiderzee). The storm killed 25,000 and destroyed a lot of structures in England as well. Then I kept poking around and found this site that shows the development of the Zuiderzee(the inland sea that opens to the North Sea) over many years. I was wondering if the Great Drowning is why the Netherlands has the dikes or if that was for another reason. I learned that the Great Drowning "contributing to the opening of a pre-existing topographical low in the Netherlands towards the North Sea"(http://www.climate4you.com/ClimateAndHistory%201300-1399.htm) which is why the dikes are there today.
I wanted to find a little more information on Lake Chad.
I found that Lake Chad "is a historically large, shallow lake in Africa, whose size has varied greatly over the centuries. It is economically very important, providing water to more than 20 million people living in the four countries which surround it." From a Wikipedia article.
When I searched further I found some recent news from it. It has has shrunk dramatically in the last 40 years, and scientists believe that this is not from global warming, but from human actions related to climate variation.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/04/0426_lakechadshrinks.html
I also found a satellite image that I thought was pretty cool.
Last, I found a map of where Lake Chad is.
Wow, 20,000 deaths a day in a single city.
When it was talking about the climate change, it said that "glaciers forced farmers into retreat in Norway". I can imagine that this affected the Skandinavians greatly, in the form of a food shortage. However, for some reason, the book doesn't elaborate on this. I, unlike the book, care about the skandinavians, who were probably freezing (more than usual) and starving at the time.
After some research, there is no mention about any type of famine in Norway. However, I found out that the plague arrived at Norway on the ship, and it proceeded to whipe out 2/3 of the population.
By the way, there's a Norwegian black metal band named 1349 (for the date the plague hit Norway). I came across it to a ridiculous extent in my searches about Norway, so I figured I'd post about it.
Due to "black death norway" and "black metal" both having black in it, I was unable to find pictures any interesting pictures. They were all flooded out by numerous pictures of Norwegian black metal bands (black metal is a big part of norwegian culture).
However, HERE is an painting about the religous beliefs about the cause of the plague. It basically depicts hellish creatures (a metaphor for the plague) killing scores of the people in the painting.
I did some research on The City of the Dead. Wikipedia says that it is a four mile long cemetary in Cairo that also houses the homeless, after they were forced to leave the croweded ghettos of Cairo. According to this site, there are about 3,000 years of egyptian history covered through the graves. Here's a picture.
I had a question about the reasoning some Muslim theologians had for the plauge. In the reading it says that they were being punished for their sins. Would these sins be everyone's little sins put together? or would it be one big sin that they entire community commited?
While reading I came across the El Nino effect and wanted to learn more about it.I learned that it is called El Niño, meaning “the Child”, because it usually appears near the Christmas season. Warm surface waters flow from the central Pacific towards the eastern Pacific, suppressing the cold, nutrient-rich upwelling of the Humboldt Current off the coast of South America. This disturbance leads to a fall in the number of plankton, wreaking havoc upon the entire ocean food chain and devastating the fishing industry.
You can find more aobut this at
El Nino
What caused all the all of the climate changes specifically? Also wasn’t it a strain of the flu that was the plague, or a was it something else? I was really interested to see both the climate change and the plague so close together.
I wanted to find out what some people thought were causing the black death at the time.
Here I found many things to answer this question.
1. It came from bad odors like a toilet or anything that ruins the air. Another example is standing waters in ditches.
2. Their bodies were cursed with 'evil humours' and therefore became sick. They would cleanse their bodies in order to prevent this.
3. The alignment of the sun and planets were to blame.
4. God and the Devil. Some thought that God was causing all of their problems.
5. Invisible fumes and poisons in the air could kill people from breathing it in.
I thought these were very interesting.
I was interested in the El Nino effect in the tropics. Here is a map of the world showing the results of the El Nino effect. It causes many weather phenomenons to occur. Here is more information about the floods, landslides, etc.
Here is a cite that shows the affects of the El Nino around the world. In the southeast of the US (that is us) there were tornadoes in Florida and damages to the coral reefs there as a result of the El Nino.
Here is a description of what an El Nino is.
I was interested in how the temperature affected the spread of plague, so I found this
website that talks about how each time there was a plague the temperature was warmer and more moist.
I also found this graph showing estimated temperatures from 1000-1800
I was curious on what people thought about alot of things during this time period, especially the black death, and what was causing it. I was also curious to find out about El Nino, what it was. So I first looked up El Nino first and i found out that El Nino was "is a global coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon. The Pacific ocean signatures, El Niño and La Niña are important temperature fluctuations in surface waters of the tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean." El Nino. I was also looking up causes to the black death and I found out what caused it was "caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas with the help of animals like the black rat." Black Death.
I was unsure of exactly what "lustrous" meant so I looked it up.
–adjective
1. having luster; shining; luminous: lustrous eyes.
2. brilliant; splendid; resplendent; illustrious: a lustrous career
I was also unsure of what a sheikh was so I looked that up too.
1. Also, shaikh, sheikh. (in Islamic countries) the patriarch of a tribe or family; chief: a term of polite address.
2. Slang. a man held to be masterful and irresistibly charming to women.
I was also not sure of what infidel meant:
Religion. a. a person who does not accept a particular faith, esp. Christianity.
b. (in Christian use) an unbeliever, esp. a Muslim.
c. (in Muslim use) a person who does not accept the Islamic faith; kaffir.
I was wondering why English farmers would retreat to Norway? The reading mentions that Norway, Finland and some areas in and around Greenland were affected badly by the cold or the "Little Ice Age". So, I don't get why farmers would leave England, because it was too cold and go somewhere colder.
Also, the reading says that in Central Asia the "accumulated abundance that fueled Mongol conquests in the previous century seem to have run out," and it also says that "the Mongol world began to contract." It then states that China suffered severe winters for 36 of the 100 years of the 14th century and that famines struck some part of China every year that Shun Ti was emperor (1333-1368). I was wondering if the Mandate of Heaven may have had anything to do with these occurances. China was very connected with Mongolia and if the Mandate of Heaven shifted from Mongolia it may have also shifted from China, which could have resulted in these famines and cold weather occurances. I just thought of the Mandate of Heaven when I read that. I also thought of the recent earthquake in China and how some think the Mandate of Heaven may be connected to that.
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