Medieval Europe: No Shiny Metal Makes for a Dark Age

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What made Europe's Dark Ages dark? To a large extent, a lack of metal. Choked international supply chains, suppressed domestic mining, political instability, and high demand all combined to make Europe's medieval period one long and bloody scramble for enough metal to do anything with. In this episode of How Minerals Made Civilization, explore how everyone from the Byzantines to the Vikings responded to the metal shortage with some (ahem) creative ways of acquiring gold, silver, and more - and how their efforts made medieval history what it was.

#middleages #europeanhistory #mineralresources #mininghistory #metallurgy #byzantine_empire #vikings

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