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"The late sixteenth and early seventeenth century were the time of what has been called the "little ice age" in the northern hemisphere,making it an inauspicious period for the founding of colonies. The little ice age is given various beginning and ending dates by historians of climate,most making it as broad as from the middle of the fifteenth to the middle of the nineteenth century. Because there was no unbroken run of cold winters and cool,wet summers,experts disagree about the outer limits of the period,but all agree that its greatest intensity was felt between 1550 and 1700. Severest winter cold and least summer warmth occurred in the 1590s,the first decade of the seventeenth century,the 1640s,and the last decade of the seventeenth century. The global mean temperature for the period was probably about one degree centigrade lower than in the relatively warm period from 1890 to 1950."
Historian Karen Ordahl Kuperman,
"The Puzzle of the American Climate in the Early Colonial Period"
-The phrase,"The little ice age is given various beginning and ending dates by historians of climate," signifies a historical thinking skill most commonly referred to as

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