he makes it clear that the effects of the Little Ice Age were global in scale. In China, then as now the most populous country in the world, the Ming dynasty fell in 1644, undermined by ...

Yet some of the wealthiest 17th-century empires — from Ming China to the Ottoman sultanate — actually fared worst in the coldest decades of the Little Ice Age. The Dutch prospered not because ...

Scientists suggest that the Little Ice Age was triggered by an unusual ... may have affected places as far away as South America and China, they were particularly evident in northern Europe.

Scientists at the University of Colorado-Boulder have published a new paper with data suggesting that the so-called Little Ice Age (LIA), a ... records (in China, or India--for example) that ...

(Related: "British Have Changed Little Since Ice Age, Gene Study Says.") Others effects—such as famines, the Thirty Years' War (1618-48), or the 164 Manchu conquest of China—took decades to ...

These were some of the images that define the Little Ice Age—a period of several centuries last millennium in which parts of the Northern Hemisphere grappled with a persistent cold. But what ...