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Photograph: Clarence Ward
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CLIMATE
. Though directly implicated in the rise or fall of some of the great civilizations of the
past, climate had only an indirect effect on public affairs in medieval France. Its primary
significance lay in the fact that it directly touched the lives of ordinary people. Despite
the reappearance of cities and urban life during the later Middle Ages, the vast majority
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