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HST 1100 Module 9 - The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages What new agricultural practices arose in the High Middle Ages? What role did peasants and aristocrats play in the civilization of the High Middle Ages? The warmer climate in the High Middle Ages improved growing conditions and allowed agriculture to expand. More land was cleared, iron was used to make better farming tools, wind and water power was harnessed using windmills and water mills, and a three field ...

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The Climate  Theory that the ‘Dark Ages’ may well have been caused by volcanic eruptions that significantly changed weather patterns  Climate conditions consisted of missed summers and long stretches of extreme cold.  The worse conditions were during period 536-540’s; the implication from many bits of evidence are that the world suffered from  1) extreme cold  2) reduced sunlight  3) crop failure  This in turn would have led to starvation and significant dea...