Climate Change and the Changes in the Environment

The rise of reading, education and the drift toward empirical observation is hugely important. We are talking about the years roughly 1560 to 1684 that kind of thing. Primarily in Europe. And it's not only the climate but it's also the changes in the way of thinking and how human beings meet the change circumstance. For instance most of Europe at this time in the late 16th century lived up subsistence agriculture.