Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each environmental event to its historical consequence.
- Black Death (1347–51)
- Little Ice Age (~1300–1850)
- Tambora eruption (1815)
- Eurasian herd domesticates
- The year without a summer: famine and migration in 1816
- Wages rose and western serfdom lost its grip
- Harvest failure and revolt in the seventeenth-century general crisis
- Zoonotic epidemics, and the immunity of surviving them
Hints
- Each event had a consequence in labour, politics or food supply.
- One raised wages by killing a large share of the workforce.
Show the answer
- Black Death (1347–51) → Wages rose and western serfdom lost its grip
- Little Ice Age (~1300–1850) → Harvest failure and revolt in the seventeenth-century general crisis
- Tambora eruption (1815) → The year without a summer: famine and migration in 1816
- Eurasian herd domesticates → Zoonotic epidemics, and the immunity of surviving them
Why
A pandemic that raised wages, a cold snap that toppled states, a volcano that starved New England, and the livestock that armed a hemisphere without anyone intending it.
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