"These mega-droughts during the 1100s and 1200s persisted for 20, 30, 40, 50 years at a time, and they were droughts that no-one in the history of the United States has ever experienced," said Ben Cook from Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Of course no one in the U.S. experienced these droughts, the country was yet to be founded, however if it is meant no one was here then, this article lacks just one more layer of authenticity.
"These mega-droughts during the 1100s and 1200s persisted for 20, 30, 40, 50 years at a time, and they were droughts that no-one in the history of the United States has ever experienced," said Ben Cook from Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Of course no one in the U.S. experienced these droughts, the country was yet to be founded, however if it is meant no one was here then, this article lacks just one more layer of authenticity.