What the Ottoman Empire can teach us about the consequences of climate change – and how drought can uproot peoples and fuel warfare
- Written by Andrea Duffy, Director of International Studies, Colorado State University
Drought's effects on the population slowed the Ottoman Empire's expansion in the 16th century.Lessing ArchivesIn the late 16th century, hundreds of bandits on horseback stormed through the countryside of Ottoman Anatolia raiding villages, inciting violence and destabilizing the sultan’s grip on power
Four hundred years later and a few hundred...
