Meanings
proper nounthe Little Optimum
- Synonym of Medieval Warm Period
Meteorologists describe this medieval warm epoch as the ‘Little Optimum’, and they cite it as the explanation of such phenomena as the Viking explosion into Russia, France, Iceland, and the northwestern Atlantic.
1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 139Synonyms: Medieval Warm Period
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proper nounSynonym of Medieval Warm Period
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