THE DARK AGES WERE VERY DARK “From 536, the coldest year, and through 850 the co

THE DARK AGES WERE VERY DARK
“From 536, the coldest year, and through 850 the coldest weather of the past 2000 years. … and then in the 900s the planet warmed up, led to the scandinavian expansion then the germanic expansion (Hansa). Then in the 1330s came a series of very bad years of famine, malnourishment, and immuno vulnerability … and then in the 1340s came the plague – and that was the end of the cathedral building era.”