Practice question · True or false
The Little Ice Age caused the abandonment of Norse Greenland.
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- Another population lived through the same conditions in the same place.
- The cold was a stressor, not the whole explanation.
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False
Why
The Inuit lived through the identical climate in the identical place and did not leave. The cold was a stressor; the Norse commitment to a European farming package was the vulnerability, and that was a choice about identity, not a fact about the weather.
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