The Development of Border Areas Reclamation Economy,the Difference between the North and the South and Its Environment Causes in the Meng-Yuan Dynasties
Reclamation economy is an important part of the ancient border economy.Specifically,in the Meng-Yuan Dynasties,the reclamation economy achieved remarkable results while obviously are the features of tendencies and the differences between the reclamation economic development and the border areas of the north and the south.To dig out the reason,by virtue of a multidimensional perspective of climate changes,ecological equilibrium and non-equilibrium etc,we can discover that the medieval warm period turned to the little ice age,resulting in ecological changes in the north-south border areas and the in the impacts of the ecological system(balance and non-balance)on the cultivation and production,together with the effects of epidemic diseases,etc.Those elements are the main causes of the economic differences between the northern and the southern border areas.
Meng-Yuan Dynastiesreclamation economy of border regionsnorth-south differences