Hydroclimatic instability accelerated the socio-political decline of the Tang Dynasty in northern China
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14310/25:00143511
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-03038-x" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-03038-x</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-03038-x" target="_blank" >10.1038/s43247-025-03038-x</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Hydroclimatic instability accelerated the socio-political decline of the Tang Dynasty in northern China
Original language description
Extreme flooding and prolonged, intensifying droughts have played a critical role in the rise and collapse of preindustrial states and empires worldwide, triggering cascading impacts such as crop failure, famine, and migration that undermined socio-political stability and economic resilience. We present a multicomponent hydroclimatic vulnerability model for crop supply networks to estimate the contribution of climatic stressors as one of several factors contributing to the decline of the late Tang Dynasty in northern China between 800 and 907 CE. We demonstrate that recurrent flooding and prolonged droughts, combined with an unsustainable shift in crop production from drought-tolerant millet to less resilient wheat and rice, led to harvest failures and food shortages during the cooler and drier climatic conditions of the late 9th and early 10th centuries CE. Intensifying raiding from competing polities and climatic extremes further affected grain supplies for the late Tang's northern military frontier and partly contributed to the sudden decline of the dynasty. Our results emphasize the importance of multicomponent environmental response models to understand historical transformations and provide new aspects of China's socio-political development during medieval times.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10510 - Climatic research
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Communications Earth & Environment
ISSN
2662-4435
e-ISSN
2662-4435
Volume of the periodical
6
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
1003
UT code for WoS article
001637529500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105024788664