UPPSC 2015 General Studies I Solved Paper

(c) The Little Ice Age was a period of regionally cold conditions between roughly 1300 A.D. and 1850 A.D.The term ‘Little Ice Age’ is somewhat questionable because there was no single, well-defined period of prolonged cold. During this coldest phase of the Little Ice Age, there are indications that average winter temperatures in Europe and North America were as much as 2°C lower than at present.