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There is a concept in the study of world history called the

general crisis in the broadest terms it's a theory, or really rather a series of theories,

trying to answer why there were so many conflicts and revolutions and just a bunch of chaos from roughly

the time Christopher Columbus set sail until about the American Civil War.

The overriding theory seems to surround what they call the Little Ice Age,

a period of climate change that led to crop failures and famine and general unrest all around the world.

Then again, it could also be the technological explosion that gave the world guns and ships and

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