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0456 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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attempts on their part to occupy better lands. I cannot
state positively that prolonged drought was the cause of
the rebellions, but it cannot fail to have contributed to the
discontent which finally broke out in war.

In Persia, the three periods of deficient rainfall were
marked by destructive famines, one of which, in the seven-
ties, has been referred to in the chapter on that country.
Farther west in Turkey, it is notable that these periods were
times of especial commotion in that always troubled land.
Between 1829 and 1833, all the Balkan states were in an
uproar, there were rebellious risings in Asiatic Turkey, and
war broke out with Egypt and Russia. During the later
sixties and in 1874, fresh disturbances of the same sort once
more led to war with Russia in 1877. Lastly, the middle
of the nineties was characterized by some of the most atro-
cious massacres of all times, when Armenians were killed
by scores of thousands. It is true that similar famines, insur-
rections, wars, and massacres have often occurred in the in-
termediate periods when in most places there was no special
scarcity of rain, but they have almost invariably been less
severe than those during the dry periods. The synchronism
between the greatest disasters and the most pronounced lack
of rainfall indicates a causal relation between the two, a
relation which is unmistakable in the case of famines.

The connection of insurrections, wars, and massacres with
deficiency of rain is less direct than that of famines, but no
less real. It depends upon the state of irritability which pre-
vails when scanty crops make it hard to sustain life and to
pay taxes. Few people in more favored regions realize the
distress which may arise from lack of the expected rain in