550 лет холода: каннибалы, ведьмы и рождение современного мира [История с Artifex]

The Little Ice Age: 550 years when the climate cooled slightly and all four Horsemen of the Apocalypse arrived in Europe. How did cold snaps and crop failures set the stage for the plague, which turned Europe into a vast cemetery? You'll see how quarantine, the first "health passports," and secular medicine were born amid these catastrophes. We'll discuss the "Hammer of the Witches," the mass bonfires, and the trials that swept across Europe from Germany to Salem. We'll explore how Isaac Newton devised the law of universal gravitation during the Cold War. We'll reach the French Revolution: crop failures, rising bread prices, the storming of the Bastille, and the fall of Louis XVI amid a climate crisis. We'll examine the myth of how "General Frost" supposedly defeated Napoleon in the Russian campaign of 1812. Let's talk about the "Year Without a Summer" after the eruption of Mount Tambora, when the world suddenly froze in the mid-19th century. You'll learn how, during that cold summer, Mary Shelley came up with "Frankenstein," and how physician John Polidori created the first classic vampire. And finally, how, against that same backdrop, the prototype of the bicycle emerged, Stradivarius violins began to play, and the world we live in today began to take shape. Subscribe to the channel so you don't miss out on new cool stories! 📣 We're on other platforms—join us! Telegram: https://t.me/artifexru https://vk.com/artifex_ru VK: https://vk.com/artifex_ru Rutube: https://rutube.ru/channel/24145988/ Learn more about European history in our other episodes: 🎥 Episode about the Hundred Years' War: Рыцари и Короли: Как Столетняя Война Измен... 🎥 Episode about Joan of Arc: Кто такая ЖАННА Д’АРК? I Святая, рожденная... 🎥 Episode about Caesar: Мой любимый ДИКТАТОР [История с Artifex] Creators: Host/Writer — Alina Sopova Instagram: art_so_va * @alina_sopova Shooting/Producing — Dmitry Abrosimov Instagram: dimson_art * Editing — Timur Yakubov https://t.me/square0ne Sand animation master — Liliya Chistina Instagram: liliya_chistina * http://sandtime.ru/ *Instagram is a Meta product, a company recognized as extremist and banned in Russia 00:00 Today's episode — How Europe Frozen 01:30 The Little Ice Age 03:20 Consequences of the Cold: Famine and War 06:30 Plague — the Black Death 09:50 Gutenberg's Printing Press 10:56 The Second Cold Wave 12:59 The Hunt for Witches 17:15 The Third Cold Wave 19:00 The French Revolution and Napoleon's Conquests