Cold snaps linked to plague, civil unrest

Monday, January 14, 2013 - 15:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Prolonged cold snaps over the past 1,000 years in Eastern Europe coincided with plague outbreaks, civil unrest and declines in human settlement, according to a new study that also finds the region is warmer now than it has been for the past millennium.

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