What Was Europe Like During The Ice Age? For roughly the last 10,000 years, the Earth has had a mild and stable climate, but this was not always thus. When you look back over the previous 100,000 years Europe was a place of rapid and dramatic climate change, shifting from searing cold to balmy warmth. Occasionally these extreme climate changes took place in less than a generation. Just over 40,000 years ago, the first modern humans advanced into this unpredictable northern land. The Ice age climate rendered vast tracts of the European landscape too cold and dry to permit tree growth. So, in place of forests were vast tracts of grassland and tundra. Plants from these two habitats met, mixed, and eventually covered much of eastern, central, and western Europe. This unique ‘tundra-steppe’ ecosystem thrived as the glaciers advanced and shriveled almost continuously. The megafauna that still survives in Europe today is very familiar to us: red deer, caribou, bison, brown bears, and wolves. Other wonderful European monsters, which we are going to present to you, are now totally extinct. ➽Consider to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI5RX1o0cE5SKwHWRj_GVqA ➽Audio: www.bensound.com, YouTube Audio Library ➽Narrated by: Zach Brown ➽Contact: factsmachine.ro@gmail.com