How the earth's previous global warming phase, from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries, reshaped human societies
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Table of contents :
A time of warming --
"The mantle of the poor" --
The flail of god --
The golden trade of the Moors --
Inuit and Qadlunaat --
The megadrought epoch --
Acorns and pueblos --
Lords of the water mountains --
The lords of Chimor --
Bucking the trades --
The flying fish ocean --
China's sorrow --
The silent elephant.