What if.. an ice age during the middle ages?

Question

What would have happened if, during the middle ages, an ice age set in very rapidly? As it, over the course of say, 50 to 100 years, the earth almost became a snowball earth, and stayed that way for about 1000 years before it went back to normal?

Would an ice age like that have killed off Humans or would we have been reduced to a primal living stage, like before the copper age?

Answer 1

Ice cover limit themselves to former temperate regions during an ice age, the tropics essentially remain unaffected. So in the middle age, if Europe could be under ice, the extreme south of Spain, Italy, Greece, the middle east, the north of Africa (Egypt), the south of Asia, would have made it through, and retain their technology.

Answer 2

to be honest i really doubt it  animals adapt to changing environment so some would be wiped out yes BUT i highly dount humans would be we have managed to survive one ice age so im sure we could do it again i mean look at our technolagy its way more advanced then last time, there wouldnt be anything to worry about we just have to learn a few lessons very quickly.

Answer 3

As the Middle Ages ended in the 1400s in Europe, I don't think this impending possibility is worth worrying about six centuries later.