Little Ice Age ), prolonged periods of drought, cyclical periods of topsoil erosion, environmental degradation, de-forestation, hostility from new arrivals, religious or cultural change, and even influence from Mesoamerican cultures.

In Europe, the Medieval Warm Period ended some time towards the end of the 13th century, bringing the " Little Ice Age " and harsher winters with reduced harvests.

Before sea levels rose at the end of the last Ice Age, Borneo was part of the mainland of Asia, forming, with Java and Sumatra, the upland regions of a peninsula that extended east from present day Indochina and Thailand.

Focus on the impact of a Little Ice Age on the empire, as the empire, beginning with a sharp drop in temperatures in the 13th century during which time the Mongol leader Kubla Khan moved south into China.

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In addition, Leary has provided voices for characters in animated films, such as a fire-breathing dragon named Flame in the series The Agents, a prehistoric saber-toothed cat named Diego in the Ice Age film series, and the pugnacious ladybug Francis in A Bug's Life.

Yet, when a distinction is made, Epipaleolithic is used for those cultures that were not much affected by the ending of the Ice Age ( like the Natufian and Khiamian cultures of Western Asia ) and the term Mesolithic is reserved for Western Europe where the extinction of the Megafauna had a great impact on the Paleolithic populations at the end of the Ice Age ( like European post-glacial cultures: Azilian, Sauveterrian, Tardenoisian, Maglemosian, etc.

This marks the beginning of the Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age ; its end is taken to be the end of the last Ice Age, around 10, 000 years ago.

It is thought that before the Ice Age Greenland had mountainous edges, and a lowland ( and probably very dry ) center which drained to the sea by one big river flowing out westwards past where Disko Island is now.

The separate species and subspecies developed from a single type of gorilla during the Ice Age, when their forest habitats shrank and became isolated from each other.

The Little Ice Age may have reduced the population of the Great Auk by exposing more of their breeding islands to predation by Polar Bears, but massive exploitation for their down drastically reduced the population.

The period follows the last glacial period ( regionally known as the Wisconsinan Glacial Period, the Baltic-Scandinavian Ice Age, or the Weichsel glacial ).

This was followed by the Little Ice Age, from the 13th or 14th century to the mid 19th century, which was a period of significant cooling, though not everywhere as severe as previous times during neoglaciation.

The last Ice Age ended around 10, 000 BP, and England has been inhabited ever since.

As fossil striped hyenas are absent from the Mediterranean region, it is likely that the species is a relatively late invader to Eurasia, having likely spread outside Africa only after the extinction of spotted hyenas in Asia at the end of the Ice Age.

The eastern half of the county was covered by glaciers during the Ice Age and has a superficial layer of glacial boulder clays.

The history of the Americas ( North, South, and Central America, and the Caribbean ) begins with people migrating to these areas from Asia during the height of an Ice Age.

The Holocene extinction includes the disappearance of large mammals known as megafauna, starting between 9, 000 and 13, 000 years ago, the end of the last Ice Age.

These extinctions, occurring near the Pleistocene – Holocene boundary, are sometimes referred to as the Quaternary extinction event or Ice Age extinction.

Some of the voles the Ice Age Common Kestrels ate – such as European Pine Voles ( Microtus subterraneus ) – were indistinguishable from those alive today.

Today hikers can follow the Ice Age National Scenic Trail through the national forest and the northeast corner of the county.

The Ice Age Trail is a designated National Scenic Trail in the United States that will run some through the state of Wisconsin once completed.

The trail is administered by the National Park Service, and is constructed and maintained by numerous private and public agencies including, most notably, the Ice Age Trail Alliance, a non-profit member-and volunteer-based organization with 21 local chapters.

A map depicting the route of the Ice Age Trail, including the trail's official logoThe trail roughly follows the location of the terminal moraine from the last Ice Age.

The eastern terminus of the Ice Age Trail lies at Potawatomi State Park, which is along Wisconsin's Door Peninsula off of Sturgeon Bay.

The trail thus passes through the land of various owners, including the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the Ice Age Trail Alliance, and hundreds of private citizens.

The Ice Age Trail is also host to one of only two designated national side trails, the Timms Hill National Trail.

The ten-mile Timms Hill Trail connects the Ice Age Trail with Timms Hill, Wisconsin's highest point, which is located in Price County.

The Trail's origins, however, date to the 1950s with the dream of Milwaukee native Ray Zillmer, who in 1958 founded the Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation ( now the Ice Age Trail Alliance, Inc .) with the goal of establishing a National Park in Wisconsin running the route of the last glaciation.

According to Henry S. Reuss's book, the first person to backpack the entire length of the Ice Age Trail was 20 year old James J. Staudacher of Shorewood, Wisconsin during the summer of 1979.

Two books are published by the Ice Age Trail Alliance to help visitors learn about or hike the Ice Age Trail: the Ice Age Trail Atlas of maps and the Ice Age Trail Companion Guide 2008, which provides a detailed description of the trail segments, including directions to trailheads, GPS coordinates for points along the trail, and information on accommodations along and near the trail.

On December 31 of 1967 the Packers hosted the Cowboys in the league championship game in cold so brutal the game was nicknamed The Ice Bowl ; Packers quarterback Bart Starr's last-second quarterback sneak was the final touchdown in a 21-17 Packers win.

One of George R. R. Martin's aims with the Ice and Fire series was to retell the history of the fictional world, since he feels that past events from dozens or even thousands of years ago still influence the present.

Ice core records show that before the Holocene there was global warming after the end of the last ice age and cooling periods, but climate changes became more regional at the start of the Younger Dryas.

In Europe, it is believed that in 1885 the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club was formed to play the first Ice Hockey Varsity Match against traditional rival Cambridge in St. Moritz, Switzerland, although this is undocumented.

The first ice beer marketed in North America was Canadian Ice, which was introduced by Molson in April 1993, although the process was patented earlier by Molson's competitor, Labatt ( now part of Anheuser-Busch InBev ), instigating the so-called " Ice Beer Wars " of the 1990s.

* 1992 – Ice Cube's good day, from his song " It Was a Good Day " was proven to be January 20, 1992.

The area around Lübeck was settled after the last Ice Age.

Its landscape was shaped by the glaciers of the last Ice Age, which retreated about 25, 000 – 22, 000 years BP ( Before Present ).

During his tenure at Harvard, he was, among many other things, an early student of the effect of the last Ice Age on North America.

Lake Ladoga was initially part of the Baltic Ice Lake ( 70 – 80 m. above present sea-level ), a historical freshwater stage of Baltic Sea.

During prehistoric times there was a succession of cultures that flourished in the land of present-day Moldova from the end of the Ice age up through the Neolithic Age, the Copper Age, the Bronze Age, and the beginning of the Iron Age, when historical records begin to be made about the people who lived in these lands.

During the last Ice age when the sea level was 60 m lower, the three islands of Saint Kitts, Nevis and Sint Eustatius ( also known as Statia ) were connected as one island.

One of the major blows for the idea of the conquest of Russia was the Battle of the Ice in 1242.

Their production work as BeMusic was collected on two LTM compilation CDs, Cool As Ice: The BeMusic Productions and Twice As Nice ( which also included production work by Donald Johnson, of A Certain Ratio, and Arthur Baker ).