Little Ice Age Essay

It is strange to think that climate patterns affecting people across the world can affect entire civilizations spread oceans apart. It can be said that the challenges of the Little Ice Age were brought over to Early Colonial Mexico, but more so its effects. One region’s success in going out to venture, trade, and colonize; epitomized by the Dutch’s accomplishments in those three aspects proved to be another regions apocalypse. Due to Europe’s conditions, both climatic and situational led to its inability to trade with Asia. Alternate routes had to be forged through explorations in order to make trade with Asia possible. These explorations, however, led to the death of millions of people in the New World.
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62). Since the Portuguese were so close to Asia, they were not interested in Columbus’s services. But the “Spanish rulers Ferdinand and Isabella ultimately granted Columbus his commission,” and off he went, in search of fortune (Marks, 62). I would argue that like most of Europe, he was led by a drive that was caused by the dire conditions that the European region was in. The crazy weather patterns of the Little Ice Age ultimately lead the people to venture, and venturing they did. One of those nations that took to the sea were the …show more content…
In fact, they were facing many of the same situations that their German neighbors to the east were facing. Conditions like hailstorms, floods, and wild weather (Dhavan, lecture April 7, slide 7). The key difference between the German and the Dutch were their governments. While they both faced the same weather conditions, Germany’s “political and economic dislocation of war made matters much worse” (Dhavan, lecture April 7, slide 12). That meant no hired mercenaries that would kill civilians, people fleeing which would spread diseases and paranoia, or financial crisis for the Dutch (Dhavan, lecture April 7, slide 12). The Dutch did things a little