Water Stress and Imperial Politics in the Southern Zagros Mountains - CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique
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Water Stress and Imperial Politics in the Southern Zagros Mountains

Andrea Ricci
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Silvia Balatti
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Morteza Djamali
Abdolmajid Naderi Beni
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Ahmad Azadi
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Pejman Firoozbakhsh
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This paper aims to investigate episodes of water stress and the human response to them in the Southern Zagros Mountains from a long-term perspective. The integrative analysis of data from different archives allows for identification of phases of drought in the region, especially starting from the Sasanian period onwards. This investigation also shows that specific imperial politics such as that of the Sasanian Kings Kawāḏ I and Ḵosrow I helped to ensure that agricultural communities and practices were sufficiently resilient to these changes. These politics were essentially based on tax reliefs for in-need farmers and state investments on the micro-level. However, pastoral and multi-resources lifestyles remained the ultimate resilience strategies in case of severe aridification.
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hal-04050853 , version 1 (30-03-2023)

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Andrea Ricci, Silvia Balatti, Elodie Brisset, Morteza Djamali, Abdolmajid Naderi Beni, et al.. Water Stress and Imperial Politics in the Southern Zagros Mountains. Reinhard Bernbeck; Gisela Eberhardt; Susan Pollock. Sidestone Press, I, pp.83-96, 2023, Coming to terms with the future : Concepts of Resilience for the Study of Early Iranian Societies, ISBN 978-94-6426-147-9. ⟨hal-04050853⟩
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