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Explanation: In pre-modern societies, there is a tendency to assign the cause of natural disasters to the displeasure of supernatural forces with the behavior of mortals. When a disaster was widespread enough, it would often lead to the ruler losing legitimacy and being overthrown.
In Imperial China, this was known as âThe Mandate of Heavenâ, but you see variations of this general line of thinking in nearly every pre-modern society, from Greece to Egypt to India to Germany.
Hell with that.
Hold the Emperor responsible. He should have invested in the necessary institutions during the fat times to prepare downturns.
Damn straight he lost the Mandate of Heaven and the people should hold him appropriately accountable.
Damn, you right tho
Additionally now we better understand how much of an impact human activity has on climate.
I donât think food could be preserved as well back than and as effective as it can now + The food yield from a single farmer isnât enough to have significant rations.
Grain is pretty easy to store, and the big issue is the fluctuations of pre-modern harvests. A good year might be nearly triple an ordinary year, while a bad year might be half or less of an ordinary year. And farmers have precious little control over that.
Rice and wheat are common crops because they do last several years kept in the proper conditions. Hence why granary construction is important.
Food storage is like the whole point of agriculture.
âPre-Modernâ
Yeah, we are not as far past this as you might think - much of the anti-lgbt moral panic included allusions that natural disasters of all sorts were because we were becoming to âmorally deficientâ by treating the LGBTQ community as people.
It has been quieter in the last decade or so, but the 2000s were bursting with that attitude.
tbf many of those people are pre-modern relicts who would gladly burn people at the stake too
I hate that I know about this already because Ive read an ungodly number of xianxia/xuanhuan novels.
And how hurricanes and tornadoes are caused by âthe gaysâ.
Where I live far-right politicians blame natural disasters caused by climate change on the (non-white) immigrants. While simultaneously denying climate change.
If you are going to claim divine right to the throne, it seems it makes sense that natural disaster are the divine displeasure manifest.