Examples of famine in the following topics:
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- The first years of the 14th century were marked by a number of famines, culminating in the Great Famine of 1315 to 1317.
- It is believed that the Great Famine was triggered by ongoing climatic change that was taking place at the time, a slow transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age which resulted in the average annual temperature for Europe declining 2 degrees Celsius during the 14th century.
- Discuss the Great Famine, the Black Death, and the political and social unrest of the Holy Roman Empire in the 13th and 14th centuries.
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- Great Zimbabwe was abandoned by 1500, possibly due to land exhaustion, drought, famine, or a decline in trade.