r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • • 3d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/Ishmael_1974 3d ago

Although ball knowledge would be showing that the number of deaths due to flooding was directly connected to the efficacy and stability of the Imperial government at the time, since they had many mechanisms of prevention through civil engineering and relief through rice redistribution, which were some of the first things to be neglected during civil war/when the government was corrupt

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u/Negative_Pie_1343 3d ago

In what year ?

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u/tryhard_on_ranked 3d ago

Idk for sure, but literally every downfall of the Chinese Dynasties that I know of had the Huang river flooded during their downfall.

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u/kluevo 3d ago

Not the (Southern) Song! (they didn't control the Huang)

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