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> Some areas in the Southern Alps (Alpes-Maritimes) were never to be inhabited again after that. But that might also be due to the end of the warm period and t
by Quarrelsome 6y ago
> Some areas in the Southern Alps (Alpes-Maritimes) were never to be inhabited again after that.
But that might also be due to the end of the warm period and the start of the little ice age. For reference: Its about now that the norse have to abandon their Greenland settlement.
- jcranmer 6y agoNote that most historians do not believe that the end of the Medieval warm period was the trigger of the collapse of the Greenland settlement, but rather that was the abandonment of trade routes to Greenland that caused its collapse.
- Quarrelsome 6y agoI still think that the changing temperature was likely a factor but perhaps just a small one. It certainly would have got harder to eek out an existence on the island. As you say though a bigger factor was Portuguese traders gaining access to African elephant ivory which was easier and cheaper to procure than walrus ivory which was the cash crop of the Greenland settlement.