Karatekan t1_jcpaq1a wrote on March 18, 2023 at 2:52 PM

It was in the middle of a war. There was also widespread Influenza, Cholera, and Typhus epidemics. The most productive land in Iran was a war zone between the Ottomans and the Russians. Inter-country transport and international import of grain was disrupted by the conflict, and there was also unusually low snowfall in the mountains, which led to a drought. 3 of the 4 major players disintegrated during or shortly after the war (Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire, and the Qanjaz Dynasty) leading to paucity of reliable sources.

Not particularly easy to study.

DjuriWarface t1_jcpzkcd wrote on March 18, 2023 at 5:41 PM

>Not particularly easy to study.

Also, what else would need to be discovered? Pretty sure that even the most uneducated would think that is a terrible situation to be in.

Cwallace98 t1_jcs8ifi wrote on March 19, 2023 at 3:54 AM

So "after extensive study, retrieval of lost journals, and reconstruction of fragmented journalism, scholars hypothesize that this famine sucked. Like no fun.

Karatekan t1_jcu4mf8 wrote on March 19, 2023 at 4:10 PM

The exact causes of the famine, the experience of the people that lived there, how it affected history going forward, etc. It's worth studying history for its own sake in my opinion, you could boil down most events in history to "well that sucked", but it doesn't mean it isn't worthwhile to learn about it.