Examples of famine in the following topics:
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- The first years of the 14th century were marked by a number of famines, culminating in the Great Famine of 1315 to 1317.
- It is believed that the Great Famine was triggered by ongoing climatic change that was taking place at the time, a slow transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age which resulted in the average annual temperature for Europe declining 2 degrees Celsius during the 14th century.
- Discuss the Great Famine, the Black Death, and the political and social unrest of the Holy Roman Empire in the 13th and 14th centuries.
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- While Godunov was attempting to keep
the country stitched together, a devastating famine swept across
Russian from 1601 to 1603.
- Crops failed
and about two million Russians, a third of the population, perished
during this famine.
- This famine also caused people to flock to Moscow
for food supplies, straining the capital both socially and
financially.
- The troubles did not cease after the
famine subsided.
- His short-lived reign was beset by famine and resistance from the boyars.
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- A second wave of Irish Catholic immigration began in the 1840s following the potato famine in Ireland.
- The Irish potato famine (1845–1849) destroyed much of the potato crop in Ireland and sent the entire country into starvation.
- In Lowell, Massachusetts, for example, the daughters of New England farmers encountered competition from the daughters of Irish farmers suffering the effects of the potato famine; these immigrant women were more easily exploited by employers, working for far less money and enduring worse conditions than native-born women.
- Irish immigration begin in the mid-eighteenth century and intensified during the great potato famine of 1845–1849.
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- Civilian casualties include deaths caused by strategic bombing, Holocaust victims, German war crimes, Japanese war crimes, population transfers in the Soviet Union, other war crimes, and deaths due to war related famine and disease.
- The higher figure of over 80 million includes deaths from war-related disease and famine.
- Civilians killed totaled 50 to 55 million, including 19 to 28 million from war-related disease and famine.
- For nations that suffered huge losses, such as the U.S.S.R., China, Poland, Germany, and Yugoslavia, sources often give only the total estimated population loss caused by the war and a rough estimate of the breakdown of deaths caused by military activity, crimes against humanity, and war-related famine.
- Other numbers are often omitted, such as, for example,
19 to 25 million war-related famine deaths in the USSR, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, and India.
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- According to Malthus, the only alternative to moral restraint was certain disaster: if allowed to grow unchecked, population would outstrip available resources, resulting in what came to be known as Malthusian catastrophes: naturally occurring checks on population growth such as famine, disease, or war.
- Over the two hundred years following Malthus's projections, famine has overtaken numerous individual regions.
- Proponents of this theory, Neo-Malthusians, state that these famines were examples of Malthusian catastrophes.
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- The world population has experienced continuous growth since the end of the Great Famine and the Black Death in 1350, when it stood at around 370 million.
- Overpopulation can result in a variety of problems, including famine, shortage of natural resources, spread of communicable disease due to dense populations, and conflict over scarce resources.
- Once the population exceeded the planet's carrying capacity, the population would be restrained through mass famine and starvation.
- Critics of Malthus point to the fact that the widespread famines he predicted have not occurred, even though the world population has continued to expand.
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- After years of internal struggle, famine, and diminishing territorial control, the Yuan dynasty was defeated by the rising Ming dynasty in 1368.
- The final years of the Yuan dynasty were marked by struggle, famine, and bitterness among the populace.
- From the late 1340s onwards, people in the countryside suffered from frequent natural disasters such as droughts, floods, and the resulting famines, and the government's lack of effective policy led to a loss of popular support.
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- At that point, the population would be restrained through mass famine and starvation.
- Over the two hundred years following Malthus's projections, famine has overtaken numerous individual regions.
- Proponents of this theory, Neo-Malthusians state that these famines were examples of Malthusian catastrophes.
- In any case, many proponents of population control have averred that famine is far from being the only problem attendant to overpopulation.
- 2) or, at the other extreme, 12 billion miserable humans suffering a difficult life with limited resources and widespread famine
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- The tragic, Irish potato famine occurred when the single variety grown in Ireland became susceptible to a potato blight, wiping out the crop.
- The loss of the crop led to famine, death, and mass emigration.