Summary of the "Of Frozen Milk and Bison Herdes"

The Summary of the Of Frozen Milk and Bison Herds

“Of Frozen Milk and Bison Herds” discusses the idea that climate change influences human affair. The author referred Lamp, a pioneering climatologist, and his suggestion describing that the climate change at the beginning of the end of the little optimum, a period of warmer temperatures from approximately AD 800-1200 BC, may have been responsible for the emergence of the Mongol hordes out of Asia early in the thirteenth century. The rapid coldness in the northern hemisphere at that time reduced the productivity of the land and forced the people to follow their charismatic leader, Genghis Khan, in a fest for survival.

Moreover, the author also described that the shift and the expansion of the circumpolar vortex, the circular winds that blow from west to east around the globe, caused the deterioration in climate which, in turn, played an important role in the deterioration of civilization. He exemplified an increase in stormy weather heralded the setback in the development of European civilization. Detrimental change in climate led to the harvests fail, desertion across Europe, and, in turn, resulted to poor health due to malnutrition and the Black Death, another name for bubonic plague. Therefore, it was not be wrong to say that climate change was the key factor contributing to such disease at that time in Europe. The effects of climate shift also affected Africa, India, and China.