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From
the 1300s to the 1800s, global temperatures dipped during
the Little Ice Age, altering the climate
and drastically affecting life at the time.
In
1565, the Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder depicted
these conditions in his landscape painting 'Hunters in the
Snow.'
Click
below to launch a pop-up window and use a virtual magnifying
glass to take a closer look at this painting. See if you can
spot all of the details on the list.
Launch
the magnifier 
Try
to find all of these details:
1.
The wheel of a mill frozen in the water
2. A family tending an outdoor fire to keep warm
3.
Ice skaters and hockey players
4.
Ice fishers
5.
What have the hunters caught? Do they appear to have had a
particulary sucessful expedition?
6.
Frozen rivers connecting the towns
7.
Snow-capped mountain peaks
8.
A villager carrying a bundle of firewood, presumably to warm
a cold dwelling
9.
One woman dragging another across the ice on a sled
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