TheFunkyM t1_j0h55iw wrote
Yeah this was something Dan Jones was covering in Power and Thrones.
It's kind of wild how little interest historians have historically had in geography and the environmental context of history.
Gvillegator t1_j0ihbml wrote
Loved that book. Mike Duncan covers this too in his podcast. He really discusses this at length in the French and Russian Revolutions. Terrible harvests because of horrible winters were likely a major factor in causing some of the issues which led to the French Revolution. The February Revolution probably doesn’t happen if it wasn’t such a nice day outside and everyone decided to get into the streets, where it just so happened that the International Working Women’s march was happening. Two of the biggest events of the last 250 years, both significantly influenced by weather.
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