Historian Lingbo Xiao and fellow authors reconstruct the impact of climate change and the social responses in order to understand the social consequences related to climate disasters during China's history. They arrive at the conclusion that the society was negatively impacted during cold periods and warmer periods had a positive impact on the society. The article points out that war against the Mongols was a common theme of the Ming dynasty which prevented the population from expanding northward, so a westward move into regions populations couldn't expand and was sensitive to climate fluctuations. The conclusion of the article is that climate change like the Little Ice Age impacted how the Chinese dynasties developed and succeeded.
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