For this post, I will be moving on to discuss specific events that have occurred because of El Nino. This research will be useful to present at the end of the year to make my presentation more clear. I found out that El Niño led to the demise of many pre-Columbian Peruvian cultures such as the Moche. It is also rumored that El-Nino had such a strong effect in the 1780's, that it caused poor crop yields in Europe which impacted the French Revolution. The intense weather caused by El Nino in the 1870's caused some of the most deadly famines in the 19th century. A stand out was the 1876 famine in Northern China which killed approximately 13 million people. I was very surprised to learn about this because these random and unrelated world events were all impacted by the El Nino Weather patterns. For my next post, I plan to pick one more event which was impacted and look at it in closer detail.
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