[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by apoger:
>Scandanivia is either cold 1 or 2 (Vanheim/Jotunheim). It certainly doesn't produce 40% less output per piece of land than England.

A> Cold-1 would be 20% with my mod.

Cold 2 (Norway?) isn't cold 1 though, is it.

B> I'd say the Vikings would disagree with you on the farming versus raiding/migrating to England example.

The Vikings didn't stop raiding even after they had settled in temperate areas like England.

Without modern technologies life in the cold pretty much sucked.

It doesn't though, it's really quite easy to keep yourself warm with a bit of basic knowledge and furs. Heck, ancient humans lived in Northern China long before they were likely to have fire.

Yes people lived in the cold, but not the massively productive ones. The great empires didn't rise from the desert either. There's a reason for this.

Ever heard of Egypt, the Indus river valley, or the empires in the Tigris-Euphrates river valley? Those aren't exactly temperate environments and they were the most powerful and wealthiest empires of their time.