Veg grower here. A big reason cold weather and a shorter growing season is bad is because a spell of bad weather right before plants are ready to harvest tends to ruin them, as domesticated crop varieties are maladapted to such conditions, alot of farmers saved seeds of crops back then instead of buying commercial varieties every year as modern ones do, so at least the medieval crops would have had a adegree of adapatbility and variability, leading to some crops possibly finishing before unseasonably cold weather at the end of a growing season
@@clay7182 Depends on who we are talking about and the kind of produce i suppose. Some varieties of squash will sit on the shelf for six months in the right conditions, alot of things would be pickled and made into jam/preserves aswell i would imagine, chutney, all of those kinds of things. I suppose salt meat if you are lucky or smoke it
In the middle ages they wore long garments made of wool. In the winter they wore 3 layers. I took knitting up during the lockdown and 4 years later I have no heat on in my home here in Scotland, but I am wearing 3 layers of long wool garments. Im warm.
Recently my heat broke- I live in New England, and we just had our first cold snap. I remembered someone mentioning wool socks being superior, so I went out and got some, layered up, along with fleece leggings (two layers) a cotton shirt, thin cashmere sweater, and a big wool one, and I was pretty okay! The thing was, I just couldn’t manage to get any housework done. I just wanted to rest and conserve energy, even if I had coffee!
@tifKh true, doings housework is bit of a drawback when wearing the layers. Our heating bills are extremely high here in the UK. I sometimes wonder if it's the government raising money for God knows what.
One of my duty stations in the Army I was a SERE instructor, and my preferred time of the year was winter. Spent most of my life roaming the mountains and forests, and even with a lifetime of experience and great bushcraft gear, you can find yourself 6 feet under in a single moment. One mistake, one slip of concentration, one miscalculation of the weather and you'll be in dire straits. Unless you're in the deep woods, foraging is extremely tough, as many of the best edibles don't do well near civilization and you need MANY acres of terrain to have a decent chance of finding enough to eat. Middle Age folk were HARDY, and they knew the land inside out, even then there was no sure survival. They knew far more than I ever will, because they HAD to.
Thank you for your service. Ive dabbled in bushcraft and hope to get into it more after a career change hopefully soon. But agreed. Im in manitoba canada. Cold is nothing new for me. I also have a hobby farm and hunt. But when people say things like, they'd escape into the bush to survive, they really dont know that the bush here isnt as plentiful as they think. I can go a day and see only a few squirels or nothing at all. And thats during early fall, nevermind winter. Lots of lakes here, so ice fishing could be a good option if you can hack through 18" or more of ice. Ive listened to a lot of videos of te fur trade history here, and starvation and cannabalism was not unheard of with the natives and explorers.
@@RyanBanman Canada is a whole 'nother level of cold, I grew up with Chicago wind chill and lake effect snow, and nowadays I live in Colorado and visit Montana. The coldest I've ever been was in Panmunjom Korea, winter there is miserable and that's coming from someone who LOVES winter, lol. Foraging is tough even in ideal conditions and with a lot of experience, those old school trappers and hunters went hungry often and ate stuff that would make a goat spit-up just to survive.
@eloquentsarcasm I often wonder if I'd be capable of keeping myself and my family alive if something like this video shared. Of course modern tech helps, and keeping with a community. But like you said in the bush you've got to be almost 100% engaged at all times, we see if mass crops fail, so does so much else. Cheers brother! Stay safe on your ventures.
This channel feeds my hunger for anything to do with the Middle Ages. So all the cold was on top of no lights, no electricity. Except for a few flames. All night. Every night.
Except for the Lord's day, on one Sunday each year, everyone got like 14 minutes of power to use how they wanted during the Medieval times for one solid year. There were no survivors, and the Church still hides it to this day...
@@KIJIKLIPS The Church keeping the electric present's infernal machine locked away under the Vatican, next to the rock it can never be separated from. They still debate if that rock was sent from Jahwey or from a darker place that God never wrote into the gospels, beyond the reach of reason, and bathed in unfathomable layers of madness. The rock is unknown to Jahwey, but it could be part of the structure that hosts dead gods out of time, and far beyond anything more than kaleidoscopic place. The argument is about why it was sent here, and if anybody who had come in contact with the Fatmalectro stone had children. The main argument was just about if anyone who was at the "Event" ever lived, and if so are they closer to the divine even after all these generations? Furthermore, what divine are they closer to, because stone isn't of our own, or something stupid and panicky like that. But this is just what I heard from my inside guy.
I love my modern life, I have a modest 2k sq ft Ranch home on 1/2 an acre by the mountains and I couldn't be happier! I am far enough out of town for peace and serenity, but yet close enough to town to get everything I need. I have a great job with great benefits, healthcare, vacation, sick time, and personal time - I feel blessed.
Literally who asked you? I hate your ppl always injection themselves in everything, telling shit too nobody that cares at all, bout "i LOvE mY MOdERn Life" fo h goof
This was the one I wanted to see. As someone who is and has Been homeless a very long time it was a question I have often asked myself. But to think that they had to deal with that much just goes to show how resilient we humans are!
This is the kind of thing that most people who idolize the past and think everything is worse now fail to understand. They don't consider how much worse life would be without electricity or air conditioning or year round access to fresh food would be. They only seem to think about the bad parts of modern life and assume everything else would be better without those parts. Instead, life in the past was horrifying and much worse than the present in almost every way.
It's getting decently cold where I am. Sometimes at night when I have a fully belly while lying under like four blankets, I think about how cold and hungry my ancestors must have been in the dead of winter. Life was hard back then and you couldn't pay me to experience it firsthand.
@@candicehoneycutt4318 I live rough on 56th parallel north. I don't have a good heating system so most nights I'll leave the windows open and not have any heat. I think it is ok, until it drops below 5C, then it will start to get uncomfortable. For lower than this it can be quite horrific and I will turn the heating on, lest I wake up in an icy home
The past was the worst. People get too much of their “information” from movies. Even kings had no sanitary water, no place for waste, (look up why they moved from castle to castle) no protection from disease, any more than a serf. Just the stench of life 🙈.
@@mangot589 Yeah, the past really was the worst! But, at least the stench was something you could get used to because of "nose blindness" (if you spend enough time around smells, you lose your ability to smell them until you get away from them for a while; works for good smells, too, unfortunately).
Most of us would be screwed, in our modern days, if there was an electrical system collapse...... It reminds me of the Hail Crisis (Crise du Verglas) that happened in Québec in the late 90s. Major outages. A train was even used to power (as a generator) a part of the town where my parts live.
Retired market gardener and landrace researcher here. The reason to plant landraces is because of their flexibility in adapting to changing soil, tillage, water and temperature conditions. Yield is good too. It is relatively easy to do. There are TH-cam videos and my first book is The Laws of Physics Are On My Side (2013).
The next world war will not be won with armies invading. Nations will just take out each others electricity grids and the starving tens of millions will turn on each other.
We all be reliving this if the powergrid went down in the winter or summer still be terrible ither way ,this video makes you apprecite the power we have nowadays
All I can think about are the time traveling romance books by Lynn Kurland and Nora Roberts. So many take place around this time and yet there's never any mention of the extreme weather. Truly romanticizing the past 😆
Theres nothing unusual about the weather except peoples memories. Everyone is frantic about warmer weather and now even worse about CO2. What kills is cold weather. Not hot weather. More co2 means more food and plant growth. Then complacency becomes the real enemy. Its getting colder.
Nothing to fear! Except increased skin cancer rates, deaths from heat stroke, an increase in high-intensity storms, or valuable farmland loss from higher sea levels. No, nothing at all.
This is amazing. The journals and data that exist to tell us about this. I love it. I am a winter person and in the summers I wish for an ice age. It's amazing to finally learn about how humans dealt with extreme winters in the old days.
I read a very daunting account of a famine during the Great Plague in 1350 from Fribourg: "and there was no grain to be had, for the weather had been freezing and the wheat and rye harvest did fail, and many of those who grew the grain were gone , and the people went into the charnel houses and ossuaries and took the dry bones from therein, and they ground and milled them finely and did leven the bone flour and baked it into a bread. All who ate of it died."
Oh my word, Christopher, I had no idea. How dreadful. Even when times are tough, I stop many times a day to express my gratitude to the universe. So many have suffered horrifically throughout the ages.
The cold period in the 14th century was caused by a large vulcanic eruption in Indonesia, which spewed a lot of ashes in the upper layers of the atmosphere. Something similar might happen when fighting countries decide to use large nuclear weapons….. no cowfarts will be able to give us any warmth in that case.
This was truly terrifying. Water is the gift that enables us to reduce and deal with heat and even make positive use of it. Once water freezes, it is over for us - Big Time. Thank goodness we are presently going through a very active solar maximum and our sun is inclined towards a warming cycle. We think our sun is solid and dependable, but it is prone to these fits of high and in this case, low activity. Can’t imagine how terrible it was to live through this, and even more frightening, the weather turned on them in an instant. It shows us that cold is way, way way more dangerous than heat and there is nothing we can do about it.
if you took the entirety of human history into context, then yes absolutely. last two generations have everything that previous generations did not have access to. (not to say its cheap nor easy)
Ok, this clickbait AI image of that man having his tounge stuck to the pole in the middle ages, it got to me, good job. I usually play and enjoy your videos anyway, but I had to leave a comment on this one. Cheers for spending time researching and sharing what you know with interesting/relating imagery, I like the genuine paintings more than the AI, but when used correctly I have a laugh.
I would like a video game based on this. Limited resources and weather events. Using smart architecture and planning to survive. AOE2 is different. It's about battles and wars.
@@TheRealBunnyManI see a really bad AI generated thumbnail of a man with his tongue frozen to a pole. Very bad, and not what I associate with this channel.
@@timecapsule. I experienced that winter of 78/79 in Eastern Germany! Days without power. Low on food. But we were lucky, since communities were strong, familiar and connected and post war methods still commonly know and in use. Also many houses with wood/coal stoves in regular use and ones yearly stash of wood and brown coal in the basement. People locked in. The island Rügen totaly disconected from the rest of the country. 2 meter high snow with 6 meters high snow dunes over the whole coutry. The power grid finally collapsed in a semi controlled blackout so it could be restarted again some day later. Thanks to the NVA(army) there was just a low number of cold connected deaths. Tanks cleared roads and railroad lines. "Just" some three digits death toll if I remember correctly. But large herds of cattles were snowed in on the pastures and in the stables. A lot of them froze to death or died, because their utters were full and they could't be milked. There are some... ahm... "nice" documentaries here on TH-cam.
@@timecapsule. For us kids it was a fun time. Just holowing out snow dunes, building tunnels and castles out of snow. All white and snowy for weeks without a change. A winterwonderland and an everlasting xmas feeling from Silvester all January long. Daily down the very steep hills... called "potatoe hills"(beause of the round icy bumps on the tracks) opposite to each other on our wooden sleds. One not so bumpy and steep, for the "Warmduscher"(warm shower takers) and the "Death Track" for the hard boys! Meeting in the middle. More than one sled crushed to kindles in the actions... 🤩
I wonder how many people ran around like headless chickens shouting "climate crisis, climate denier, net zero". Obviously no one was shouting "just stop oil", etc.
@@MatthewTheWandererYes it does, it's not ignorant at all. If they don't care enough to make a decent thumbnail, how do we know that they care enough to make a decent video that is well researched.
@0:31 what do you think an ice age is my guy? 😅 It's called "the little ice age" because, due to the volcano, it WAS a literal little ice age. It's not a full ice age though due to the amount of time associated with it. But a global drop in temperatures that changes climates and weather over a long period of time, THAT'S an ice age. 😅
I love your videos but I can’t support the use of AI. Not only is it lazy and makes your content seem less credible, but it also steals the art of others to generate images and causes environmental damage. If someone was stealing your content to make bad knockoffs, I’m sure you wouldn’t like that- and us artists feel the same about our art being used to “train” AI. Nobody wants their hard work stolen. It’s just not right. I’m not upset. Just really, really disappointed. I hope you’ll reconsider and not do this again in the future.
@@scallopohare9431 it's the character Menhera Chan by the artist Bisuko Ezaki. She's a mascot for people who struggle with their mental health/self h*rm. She's meant to show some of the struggles we go through and provide a more positive portrayal of mentally ill people. Even if not everybody likes the art style- which is fine, it's ok to have preferences- it's still art that someone put time, effort and meaning into. That's significantly more than any Al "artist" has ever done. Al lacks passion. It lacks emotion. It lacks meaning, intent, and most of all, integrity. It is impossible to create Al "art" without stealing the art of a human. And that will never be ok. If you've worked for YEARS to practice and improve, put countless hours into learning, poured money and labor into something- it's WRONG for someone to steal it. It doesn't matter if it's a motorcycle you worked hard to afford, a dog you put effort into training, or art which takes years to master- stealing it is WRONG. Not valuing art and artists doesn't make you cool. It makes you a bad person Also, I have never claimed to have made the art myself, so it's not stealing for me to use it as my pfp- it's no different than using Killua or batman as a pfp. Bisuko's a pretty popular artist/author, and he's never had a problem with people using his art as pfps as long as they aren't claiming to have drawn it themselves.
@@scallopohare9431 it's the character Menhera Chan by the artist Bisuko Ezaki. She's a mascot for people who struggle with their mental health/s*lf h*rm. She's meant to show some of the struggles we go through and provide a more positive portrayal of mentally ill people. Even if not everybody likes the art style- which is fine, it's ok to have preferences- it's still art that someone put time, effort and meaning into. That's significantly more than any Al "artist" has ever done. Al lacks passion. It lacks emotion. It lacks meaning, intent, and most of all, integrity. It is impossible to create Al "art" without stealing the art of a human. And that will never be ok. If you've worked for YEARS to practice and improve, put countless hours into learning, poured money and labor into something- it's WRONG for someone to steal it. It doesn't matter if it's a motorcycle you worked hard to afford, a dog you put effort into training, or art which takes years to master- stealing it is WRONG. Not valuing art and artists doesn't make you cool. It makes you a bad person Also, I have never claimed to have made the art myself, so it's not stealing for me to use it as my pfp- it's no different than using Killua or batman as a pfp. Bisuko's a pretty popular artist/author, and he's never had a problem with people using his art as pfps as long as they aren't claiming to have drawn it themselves.
@ Okay, so it is public domain? Funny how you don't attribute it on your homepage. I don't care about the style, you have got a heck of a nerve to grouse about anyone else using any image.
@@scallopohare9431 There is a HUGE difference between using something as a pfp on a TH-cam account that I don’t even post on, and stealing someone’s art to make AI garbage (though if I was a content creator using someone else’s art without credit, that would be a problem) the difference is: I am not a content creator diverting potential funds from him, I have never claimed to be the artist who made this image (unlike AI “artists” who claim their “art” as their own, even though AI “art” can only be made by stealing human art), I have never traced or copied his (or anyone else’s) art, and I will gladly tell anyone who asks where it’s from. Like I said, Bisuko’s a pretty popular artist and he doesn’t mind it when people use his work as a pfp. I think you should read my first reply to your comment again; because if you can’t understand why AI “art” is wrong when put in such simple terms, you might need the kind of help that I’m not qualified to provide. To make it even easier: AI cannot create an image without being “fed” human art. Human artists (and photographers) do not consent to our images being used to train AI. Thus, it is stealing. Countless artists have said that we don’t want our works to be used by AI. Please just respect it. If you have the most basic levels of human decency, it’s not hard. Also, I haven’t updated my TH-cam profile for literal years; but you know what, I think I will credit him. I completely forgot since again, I don’t post anything here, and I barely even leave comments. But it’s not a bad idea at all, even if he is pretty famous already.
A repeat today would kill hundreds of millions on the EU alone. Many have no fireplaces or stoves today. That & modern people have few survival skills.
Around 10 years ago the Great Lakes and Niagara Falls froze for the first time in human history.And in 2008, in Quebec city, we had 557 cm of snow. Yes you have read it right,18.27 feet of snow.And yet,in Noah's story,God pledged that He would never bring such a deluge on humans again. The rainbow in the sky was the sign of His alliance with Man.I hope you are not foreboding an awful winter for us all.
I knew that the people's of yester year handled the cold with extra furs and blankets... I am watching as I'm curious how medieval civilized people handled it. I know medieval people cared as much for fashion as modern day cardashian and celebrity Milan
Unfortunately all this video was .... Just a list of events. Nothing about how people adapted or coped other than shit was bad they ate people and died.
@@RaimoHöft fur and skins have never gone away for a reason. If you think on it wool blankets, pants, shirts , jackets, suits are nothing but fur. Same with cashmere and alpaca wools.
…and yet many (if not most) of you believe investors, otherwise known as politicians, in an ‘Inconvenient Truth.’ Yeah…my car and that plastic grocery bag is causing climate change. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
It's not Hunga Tunga though the underwater volcano that erupted in Jan 2022 probably did as it brought water vapor in the atmosphere to new record levels since records began in the 1970s water vapor is earth's greatest greenhouse gas man has little if any effect on the climate climate change is mostly if not all natural
A meter thick ice sheet and no technique to fish under that circumstances(like the Sacha and other siberian/north asian tribes) makes it imposible to gather enough fish.
Wondering not for the first time; How humankind has survived upto 2024 is a miracle.
Sheer belligerence through numbers
We outcompeted everything else.
Now we will out compete ourselves.
Veg grower here. A big reason cold weather and a shorter growing season is bad is because a spell of bad weather right before plants are ready to harvest tends to ruin them, as domesticated crop varieties are maladapted to such conditions, alot of farmers saved seeds of crops back then instead of buying commercial varieties every year as modern ones do, so at least the medieval crops would have had a adegree of adapatbility and variability, leading to some crops possibly finishing before unseasonably cold weather at the end of a growing season
I know it's a pain to bring root crops in and put in sand to flower next season for seeds
How did they preserve meat and veggies?
Thats why we are not meant to eat vegetables.
@@happyapple4269 Lol, maybe we should eat them just in case ;)
@@clay7182 Depends on who we are talking about and the kind of produce i suppose. Some varieties of squash will sit on the shelf for six months in the right conditions, alot of things would be pickled and made into jam/preserves aswell i would imagine, chutney, all of those kinds of things. I suppose salt meat if you are lucky or smoke it
Really puts my centrally heated life into perspective
In the middle ages they wore long garments made of wool. In the winter they wore 3 layers.
I took knitting up during the lockdown and 4 years later I have no heat on in my home here in Scotland, but I am wearing 3 layers of long wool garments. Im warm.
Recently my heat broke- I live in New England, and we just had our first cold snap. I remembered someone mentioning wool socks being superior, so I went out and got some, layered up, along with fleece leggings (two layers) a cotton shirt, thin cashmere sweater, and a big wool one, and I was pretty okay!
The thing was, I just couldn’t manage to get any housework done. I just wanted to rest and conserve energy, even if I had coffee!
@tifKh true, doings housework is bit of a drawback when wearing the layers. Our heating bills are extremely high here in the UK. I sometimes wonder if it's the government raising money for God knows what.
@outoforbit00 for Ed Miliband…
Wool is the best. Hook me up. I'll pay.
@@outoforbit00Gota finance the immigrants and monarchy.
I wouldn’t have survived a week back then. We truly stand on the shoulders of giants.
We also stand on the shoulders of cannibals
Sounds like a skill issue tbh
@@sage1261 exactly. This just shows how awful and barbaric those without melanin can be. Just sickening.
@@sage1261 Giant cannibals
You would've had you grew up then. People know how to survive
One of my duty stations in the Army I was a SERE instructor, and my preferred time of the year was winter. Spent most of my life roaming the mountains and forests, and even with a lifetime of experience and great bushcraft gear, you can find yourself 6 feet under in a single moment. One mistake, one slip of concentration, one miscalculation of the weather and you'll be in dire straits. Unless you're in the deep woods, foraging is extremely tough, as many of the best edibles don't do well near civilization and you need MANY acres of terrain to have a decent chance of finding enough to eat.
Middle Age folk were HARDY, and they knew the land inside out, even then there was no sure survival. They knew far more than I ever will, because they HAD to.
Thank you for your service. Ive dabbled in bushcraft and hope to get into it more after a career change hopefully soon.
But agreed. Im in manitoba canada. Cold is nothing new for me. I also have a hobby farm and hunt. But when people say things like, they'd escape into the bush to survive, they really dont know that the bush here isnt as plentiful as they think.
I can go a day and see only a few squirels or nothing at all. And thats during early fall, nevermind winter.
Lots of lakes here, so ice fishing could be a good option if you can hack through 18" or more of ice.
Ive listened to a lot of videos of te fur trade history here, and starvation and cannabalism was not unheard of with the natives and explorers.
@@RyanBanman Canada is a whole 'nother level of cold, I grew up with Chicago wind chill and lake effect snow, and nowadays I live in Colorado and visit Montana. The coldest I've ever been was in Panmunjom Korea, winter there is miserable and that's coming from someone who LOVES winter, lol. Foraging is tough even in ideal conditions and with a lot of experience, those old school trappers and hunters went hungry often and ate stuff that would make a goat spit-up just to survive.
@eloquentsarcasm I often wonder if I'd be capable of keeping myself and my family alive if something like this video shared.
Of course modern tech helps, and keeping with a community. But like you said in the bush you've got to be almost 100% engaged at all times, we see if mass crops fail, so does so much else.
Cheers brother! Stay safe on your ventures.
I lived in my car for a week during winter in Canada, so I’m basically on the same level as these guys
yeah ok buddy
This channel feeds my hunger for anything to do with the Middle Ages. So all the cold was on top of no lights, no electricity. Except for a few flames. All night. Every night.
Except for the Lord's day, on one Sunday each year, everyone got like 14 minutes of power to use how they wanted during the Medieval times for one solid year.
There were no survivors, and the Church still hides it to this day...
@@galloe8933what do you mean...
@@KIJIKLIPS The Church keeping the electric present's infernal machine locked away under the Vatican, next to the rock it can never be separated from.
They still debate if that rock was sent from Jahwey or from a darker place that God never wrote into the gospels, beyond the reach of reason, and bathed in unfathomable layers of madness.
The rock is unknown to Jahwey, but it could be part of the structure that hosts dead gods out of time, and far beyond anything more than kaleidoscopic place. The argument is about why it was sent here, and if anybody who had come in contact with the Fatmalectro stone had children.
The main argument was just about if anyone who was at the "Event" ever lived, and if so are they closer to the divine even after all these generations? Furthermore, what divine are they closer to, because stone isn't of our own, or something stupid and panicky like that.
But this is just what I heard from my inside guy.
@@KIJIKLIPS hes smoking crack again dont mind him
@@galloe8933What was the power given to people?
I love my modern life, I have a modest 2k sq ft Ranch home on 1/2 an acre by the mountains and I couldn't be happier! I am far enough out of town for peace and serenity, but yet close enough to town to get everything I need. I have a great job with great benefits, healthcare, vacation, sick time, and personal time - I feel blessed.
12 acres on 2400 sq feet in Kentucky loving the outdoors
Literally who asked you? I hate your ppl always injection themselves in everything, telling shit too nobody that cares at all, bout "i LOvE mY MOdERn Life" fo h goof
Enjoy it while you can. Nothing is permanent.
This was the one I wanted to see.
As someone who is and has Been homeless a very long time it was a question I have often asked myself. But to think that they had to deal with that much just goes to show how resilient we humans are!
This is the kind of thing that most people who idolize the past and think everything is worse now fail to understand. They don't consider how much worse life would be without electricity or air conditioning or year round access to fresh food would be. They only seem to think about the bad parts of modern life and assume everything else would be better without those parts. Instead, life in the past was horrifying and much worse than the present in almost every way.
It's getting decently cold where I am. Sometimes at night when I have a fully belly while lying under like four blankets, I think about how cold and hungry my ancestors must have been in the dead of winter.
Life was hard back then and you couldn't pay me to experience it firsthand.
@@candicehoneycutt4318 I live rough on 56th parallel north. I don't have a good heating system so most nights I'll leave the windows open and not have any heat. I think it is ok, until it drops below 5C, then it will start to get uncomfortable. For lower than this it can be quite horrific and I will turn the heating on, lest I wake up in an icy home
The past was the worst. People get too much of their “information” from movies. Even kings had no sanitary water, no place for waste, (look up why they moved from castle to castle) no protection from disease, any more than a serf. Just the stench of life 🙈.
@@mangot589 Yeah, the past really was the worst! But, at least the stench was something you could get used to because of "nose blindness" (if you spend enough time around smells, you lose your ability to smell them until you get away from them for a while; works for good smells, too, unfortunately).
You see in life it's what you get used to.
The Starks are right once again
Winter is Coming
Stand together or fall alone
It’s amazing to think we’re here today because our tough ancestors survived this… I hope my 30th great grandparents didn’t eat anybody 😫
10:20 People throwing snow off their roofs only to become trapped by it sounds like something straight out of Monty Python.
I love this channel. I had no idea I was so interested in medieval history but I can’t stop 😂
Most of us would be screwed, in our modern days, if there was an electrical system collapse...... It reminds me of the Hail Crisis (Crise du Verglas) that happened in Québec in the late 90s.
Major outages. A train was even used to power (as a generator) a part of the town where my parts live.
No question that genuine anarchy would come of it.
People nowadays are aggressive about the things they stupidly take for granted.
I’ve got my fire place, axe and plenty of wood. I’d be fine
I can barely survive a big winter storm nowadays. Cannot imagine doing it back then 😂🙈😵💫
So true...
Its not your fault if natural selection ignored you back then
Your creepy dolls make great burning material
Retired market gardener and landrace researcher here. The reason to plant landraces is because of their flexibility in adapting to changing soil, tillage, water and temperature conditions. Yield is good too. It is relatively easy to do. There are TH-cam videos and my first book is The Laws of Physics Are On My Side (2013).
One of my biggest fears is being in a world where people are starving.
The next world war will not be won with armies invading. Nations will just take out each others electricity grids and the starving tens of millions will turn on each other.
Is this sarcastic? 😅
@@CoachBa6ix Possibly a sheltered "one-percenter" fear? Bizarre.
We are only one disaster away from that. @@Bearwithme560
@@CoachBa6ixthey’re saying where everyone is starving enough to have to fight each other for food and extreme food shortages
We all be reliving this if the powergrid went down in the winter or summer still be terrible ither way ,this video makes you apprecite the power we have nowadays
This as we tuck into our Christmas feast.
Starting a bit early ain't you?
The irony of jousting being “evil” bc it took men away from participating in the crusades is golden.
This was 100% the content I needed after a long hard day
All I can think about are the time traveling romance books by Lynn Kurland and Nora Roberts. So many take place around this time and yet there's never any mention of the extreme weather. Truly romanticizing the past 😆
I can only imagine that everyone trying to keep warm resulted in the birth rate rocketing in the following year.
More babies that died next year*
They usually only lived to 25 - 35 years old... rough times.
That's a misconception and statistical lie... long proven wrong.
Hello Medieval Madness i like your channel
And yet they managed to build all those huge cathedrals in the 1300s, that's madness
I'd never heard of the terrible winter of 1317.
Theres nothing unusual about the weather except peoples memories. Everyone is frantic about warmer weather and now even worse about CO2. What kills is cold weather. Not hot weather. More co2 means more food and plant growth. Then complacency becomes the real enemy. Its getting colder.
Heat does kill.
Nothing to fear! Except increased skin cancer rates, deaths from heat stroke, an increase in high-intensity storms, or valuable farmland loss from higher sea levels. No, nothing at all.
People believe in the propaganda of fake man-made climate change.
@@lizziehn5928The Romans did quite well in a far warmer climate than today, ey?!
Even these days I can’t imagine many surviving that in the U.K. You’d have to be extremely well prepared.
Geoffrey Chaucer lived through some of this, but you'd never know it reading his work.
This is amazing. The journals and data that exist to tell us about this. I love it. I am a winter person and in the summers I wish for an ice age. It's amazing to finally learn about how humans dealt with extreme winters in the old days.
I read a very daunting account of a famine during the Great Plague in 1350 from Fribourg: "and there was no grain to be had, for the weather had been freezing and the wheat and rye harvest did fail, and many of those who grew the grain were gone , and the people went into the charnel houses and ossuaries and took the dry bones from therein, and they ground and milled them finely and did leven the bone flour and baked it into a bread. All who ate of it died."
Oh my word, Christopher, I had no idea. How dreadful. Even when times are tough, I stop many times a day to express my gratitude to the universe. So many have suffered horrifically throughout the ages.
nope, couldn't have done it. always good videos! Merry Christmas!
Watching this from South Central Los Angeles 64° 😅
The thumbnail on this thing was ef'ing priceless.
Was it generated by AI???
@@RantingThespian I believe it's a Giotto di Bondone original.
@@RantingThespian yes
The bubonic plague was also a big contributor to population decline during the latter 1300s
the cows mustnt have farted back then
The lambs were still silent though.
It's only a matter of time until they have a fart allowance, you will be automatically charged for excess farts via you're biometric implant.
They had just left their "Warm Period" ]warmer than ours by around 1.5c] and were now in their cold period.
I blame all the SUVs from that time
Neither were they able to jump over the moon.
I’m just imagining their shock at how many cows can be found in a modern factory setting
Being built different is how we made it
Winter was brutal in Middle Ages.
The cold period in the 14th century was caused by a large vulcanic eruption in Indonesia, which spewed a lot of ashes in the upper layers of the atmosphere. Something similar might happen when fighting countries decide to use large nuclear weapons….. no cowfarts will be able to give us any warmth in that case.
This was truly terrifying. Water is the gift that enables us to reduce and deal with heat and even make positive use of it. Once water freezes, it is over for us - Big Time. Thank goodness we are presently going through a very active solar maximum and our sun is inclined towards a warming cycle. We think our sun is solid and dependable, but it is prone to these fits of high and in this case, low activity. Can’t imagine how terrible it was to live through this, and even more frightening, the weather turned on them in an instant. It shows us that cold is way, way way more dangerous than heat and there is nothing we can do about it.
Imagine if that ice age prediction were true. We would be lost.
Aren t we spoiled brats...these days...!?..those were ..the "mild times"😅
if you took the entirety of human history into context, then yes absolutely. last two generations have everything that previous generations did not have access to. (not to say its cheap nor easy)
All I know how to do is make a "rocket stove" out of several different materials and styles and scramble eggs.
I would not have done well back then.
Was ergotism more prevalent from higher chance of wet grain?
Of course.
I love your channel. Great work! I’ve been watching trying to decide when in this period to place my novel. Which years would you suggest?😊
Thank you 👍
What's with the AI slop thumbnail
This channel's thumbnail game used to be peak
You away, Luddite!
I also don't like it.
@@RantingThespian It's stunningly beautiful, shut the hell up!
Agreed.
Where do you guys think they store 700 year old records? I bet it's a cool place to work
This is exactly what someone would say who was plotting to steal 700 year old records.
Ok, this clickbait AI image of that man having his tounge stuck to the pole in the middle ages, it got to me, good job. I usually play and enjoy your videos anyway, but I had to leave a comment on this one. Cheers for spending time researching and sharing what you know with interesting/relating imagery, I like the genuine paintings more than the AI, but when used correctly I have a laugh.
I love how what is a brutal winter for Medieval Europe is like a moderate winter here in Minnesota lol
Volcanic eruptions in Indonesia a few years prior to 1300 could be the catalyst for this event.
good video but the AI thumbnail was cringe
Cringe comment
@@Joedirt3349 Extremely! All these anti-AI losers are getting annoying!
It's really bad.
@@MatthewTheWanderer call all of internet anti-AI losers ig since they're avoiding your videos 😬
@@localscoundrel What a braindead comment!
You survived by others not surviving, *completely* normal and um encouraged..
Today however, there's no need to eat your neighbors nextdoor.
Great video as always. Would love to see what your sources are.
The weather sounds a lot like an average winter in the Midwest. Good to know if I ever accidentally time travel
Thank the Lord for alternating current
wonderful video
I like the B roll that your team uses :)
🎶The Middle Ages were magic! 🪄 iykyk
Jus clicking on random shi to satisfy my late night insomnia
🤣😂
I would like a video game based on this. Limited resources and weather events. Using smart architecture and planning to survive.
AOE2 is different. It's about battles and wars.
Great for showing picture off yat rock. 👍
No disrespect to them, but this makes me feel a little better about my own worries.
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Sir, I love your channel. That is all.
Saint WHO in 1632? Sounds like you’re saying Maude, but her day is in March. Finding references to Saint Marcellus. Please advise.
Rain snow and cannibalism. Otherwise known in my household as Tuesday night
Please no AI. It is art theft. You wouldn’t want your work stolen.
? I only see illustrations and stock footage
@@TheRealBunnyManI see a really bad AI generated thumbnail of a man with his tongue frozen to a pole. Very bad, and not what I associate with this channel.
@@RantingThespianA single image is your problem? Rilly?
meanwhile in 2024: "2 inches of snow fell last night so we are cancelling school for the day. Stay safe everyone!"
We have the technology and experience that we would survive a winter like this if it happened today, back then it must have been a struggle.
In 1978/79 Central Europe was in a stand still due to lots of snow and a freezing cold. It was close to a total crash.
@@RaimoHöft That was the 70's.
@@timecapsule. I experienced that winter of 78/79 in Eastern Germany! Days without power. Low on food. But we were lucky, since communities were strong, familiar and connected and post war methods still commonly know and in use. Also many houses with wood/coal stoves in regular use and ones yearly stash of wood and brown coal in the basement.
People locked in. The island Rügen totaly disconected from the rest of the country. 2 meter high snow with 6 meters high snow dunes over the whole coutry. The power grid finally collapsed in a semi controlled blackout so it could be restarted again some day later.
Thanks to the NVA(army) there was just a low number of cold connected deaths. Tanks cleared roads and railroad lines.
"Just" some three digits death toll if I remember correctly. But large herds of cattles were snowed in on the pastures and in the stables. A lot of them froze to death or died, because their utters were full and they could't be milked. There are some... ahm... "nice" documentaries here on TH-cam.
@@RaimoHöft Sounds like it was tough. There was a similar event in 2009/10. I'm not sure how that affected Eastern Europe though.
@@timecapsule. For us kids it was a fun time. Just holowing out snow dunes, building tunnels and castles out of snow. All white and snowy for weeks without a change. A winterwonderland and an everlasting xmas feeling from Silvester all January long. Daily down the very steep hills... called "potatoe hills"(beause of the round icy bumps on the tracks) opposite to each other on our wooden sleds. One not so bumpy and steep, for the "Warmduscher"(warm shower takers) and the "Death Track" for the hard boys! Meeting in the middle. More than one sled crushed to kindles in the actions... 🤩
Geez, and here I was complaining about it being cold. 🤐
I wonder how many people ran around like headless chickens shouting "climate crisis, climate denier, net zero". Obviously no one was shouting "just stop oil", etc.
Can we get some data on how common cannibalism was during those freezing times ?
Was the thumbnail AI generated? Please don't use AI, it makes your channel feel lazy and untrustworthy.
I agree
What caused the global warming that ended the little Ice Age?
Ah yes the "simple times" before social media, the internet and modern conveniences people love to romanticize.
Everything is cyclical folks, this type of winter will return. Learn and prepare now.
not a fan of the ai thumbnails. really enjoyed when they had original mid age artwork
another great video. please don't use AI thumbnails it makes your good work look cheap
No it doesn't. That is a very ignorant thing to say.
Ditto, if this thumbnail was created by AI, please stop.
@@MatthewTheWandererYes it does, it's not ignorant at all. If they don't care enough to make a decent thumbnail, how do we know that they care enough to make a decent video that is well researched.
@@RantingThespian There is absolutely nothing wrong with using AI, ESPECIALLY for making thumbnails! YOU need to stop being ignorant.
@@RantingThespian How dare you say something so stupid! You know NOTHING of AI OR making "real" art!
Those people were never cold they didn't have to buy gas oil
They chopped down trees for fireplace
@0:31 what do you think an ice age is my guy? 😅
It's called "the little ice age" because, due to the volcano, it WAS a literal little ice age. It's not a full ice age though due to the amount of time associated with it.
But a global drop in temperatures that changes climates and weather over a long period of time, THAT'S an ice age. 😅
Would it be possible for you to do a video about Saint-Nicolas, the man we've come to know as Santa Claus? 🙂
This type of cold must imprint on DNA - their 18th generation descendants are yelling at someone right now to put a scarf on 🤧😂💕
I feel like the title is quite misleading
I love your videos but I can’t support the use of AI. Not only is it lazy and makes your content seem less credible, but it also steals the art of others to generate images and causes environmental damage. If someone was stealing your content to make bad knockoffs, I’m sure you wouldn’t like that- and us artists feel the same about our art being used to “train” AI. Nobody wants their hard work stolen. It’s just not right.
I’m not upset. Just really, really disappointed. I hope you’ll reconsider and not do this again in the future.
So, where'd you get your icon? Either from another source, or if that is your notion of art, words fail me.
@@scallopohare9431 it's the character Menhera Chan by the artist Bisuko Ezaki. She's a mascot for people who struggle with their mental health/self h*rm. She's meant to show some of the struggles we go through and provide a more positive portrayal of mentally ill people.
Even if not everybody likes the art style- which is fine, it's ok to have preferences- it's still art that someone put time, effort and meaning into. That's significantly more than any Al "artist" has ever done. Al lacks passion. It lacks emotion. It lacks meaning, intent, and most of all, integrity. It is impossible to create Al "art" without stealing the art of a human. And that will never be ok.
If you've worked for YEARS to practice and improve, put countless hours into learning, poured money and labor into something- it's WRONG for someone to steal it. It doesn't matter if it's a motorcycle you worked hard to afford, a dog you put effort into training, or art which takes years to master- stealing it is WRONG. Not valuing art and artists doesn't make you cool. It makes you a bad person
Also, I have never claimed to have made the art myself, so it's not stealing for me to use it as my pfp- it's no different than using Killua or batman as a pfp. Bisuko's a pretty popular artist/author, and he's never had a problem with people using his art as pfps as long as they aren't claiming to have drawn it themselves.
@@scallopohare9431 it's the character Menhera Chan by the artist Bisuko Ezaki. She's a mascot for people who struggle with their mental health/s*lf h*rm. She's meant to show some of the struggles we go through and provide a more positive portrayal of mentally ill people.
Even if not everybody likes the art style- which is fine, it's ok to have preferences- it's still art that someone put time, effort and meaning into. That's significantly more than any Al "artist" has ever done. Al lacks passion. It lacks emotion. It lacks meaning, intent, and most of all, integrity. It is impossible to create Al "art" without stealing the art of a human. And that will never be ok.
If you've worked for YEARS to practice and improve, put countless hours into learning, poured money and labor into something- it's WRONG for someone to steal it. It doesn't matter if it's a motorcycle you worked hard to afford, a dog you put effort into training, or art which takes years to master- stealing it is WRONG. Not valuing art and artists doesn't make you cool. It makes you a bad person
Also, I have never claimed to have made the art myself, so it's not stealing for me to use it as my pfp- it's no different than using Killua or batman as a pfp. Bisuko's a pretty popular artist/author, and he's never had a problem with people using his art as pfps as long as they aren't claiming to have drawn it themselves.
@ Okay, so it is public domain? Funny how you don't attribute it on your homepage. I don't care about the style, you have got a heck of a nerve to grouse about anyone else using any image.
@@scallopohare9431 There is a HUGE difference between using something as a pfp on a TH-cam account that I don’t even post on, and stealing someone’s art to make AI garbage (though if I was a content creator using someone else’s art without credit, that would be a problem)
the difference is: I am not a content creator diverting potential funds from him, I have never claimed to be the artist who made this image (unlike AI “artists” who claim their “art” as their own, even though AI “art” can only be made by stealing human art), I have never traced or copied his (or anyone else’s) art, and I will gladly tell anyone who asks where it’s from. Like I said, Bisuko’s a pretty popular artist and he doesn’t mind it when people use his work as a pfp.
I think you should read my first reply to your comment again; because if you can’t understand why AI “art” is wrong when put in such simple terms, you might need the kind of help that I’m not qualified to provide.
To make it even easier:
AI cannot create an image without being “fed” human art.
Human artists (and photographers) do not consent to our images being used to train AI. Thus, it is stealing.
Countless artists have said that we don’t want our works to be used by AI. Please just respect it. If you have the most basic levels of human decency, it’s not hard.
Also, I haven’t updated my TH-cam profile for literal years; but you know what, I think I will credit him. I completely forgot since again, I don’t post anything here, and I barely even leave comments. But it’s not a bad idea at all, even if he is pretty famous already.
Nice😊
A repeat today would kill hundreds of millions on the EU alone. Many have no fireplaces or stoves today. That & modern people have few survival skills.
Around 10 years ago the Great Lakes and Niagara Falls froze for the first time in human history.And in 2008, in Quebec city, we had 557 cm of snow. Yes you have read it right,18.27 feet of snow.And yet,in Noah's story,God pledged that He would never bring such a deluge on humans again. The rainbow in the sky was the sign of His alliance with Man.I hope you are not foreboding an awful winter for us all.
Only no more a global flood was the promise. 🤗
I would have not even lasted 3 days
the AI thumbnail 😕👎
I like it 🙋♂️
Its always been like that. You must be new here.
Good job Ed milliband wasn't around, he'd have blamed it all on global warming and taken your groats away.
I knew that the people's of yester year handled the cold with extra furs and blankets... I am watching as I'm curious how medieval civilized people handled it.
I know medieval people cared as much for fashion as modern day cardashian and celebrity Milan
Unfortunately all this video was .... Just a list of events. Nothing about how people adapted or coped other than shit was bad they ate people and died.
Guess, why fur trade was so lucrative AND necassary for survival! 🤗
@@RaimoHöft fur and skins have never gone away for a reason.
If you think on it wool blankets, pants, shirts , jackets, suits are nothing but fur. Same with cashmere and alpaca wools.
God i love these videos
Please stay away from AI thumbnails, don't become like everyone else😕
😂😢😂
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Eh, aye.
@@MatthewTheWandererFor what? Speaking their mind? For not wanting this channel to seem like a lot of the lazy slop that is also on TH-cam.
…and yet many (if not most) of you believe investors, otherwise known as politicians, in an ‘Inconvenient Truth.’ Yeah…my car and that plastic grocery bag is causing climate change.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
It's not Hunga Tunga though the underwater volcano that erupted in Jan 2022 probably did as it brought water vapor in the atmosphere to new record levels since records began in the 1970s water vapor is earth's greatest greenhouse gas man has little if any effect on the climate climate change is mostly if not all natural
Was there no fish in those days
Yes, of course, but not everywhere.
A meter thick ice sheet and no technique to fish under that circumstances(like the Sacha and other siberian/north asian tribes) makes it imposible to gather enough fish.
Shout out to all the neurospicy people following their special interest topic 👋🏼😅
Sigh , another TH-camr with good info but ruins it by putting music behind what is being said