Comment on Why did the first people to settle in very cold climates decide to settle in such a harsh climate?

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• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yep, following food.

  Or, it wasn’t as harsh when they first appeared. I mean there was the Little Ice Age in Shakespeare’s time, where the Thames froze over. If you took that as a sign it was becoming permanently like that in London, what would you do? It’s not like you have somewhere else to go that you know it’s better (or hell, where anything is).

  People in the 20th century easily forget how little knowledge the average person had even 100 years ago. Hell, even the information the wealthy had. Just a couple hundred years ago a globe of the earth was practically priceless. They were still a luxury in the early 20th century.

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