Depopulations

Consilio nititur plus hostibus nocet, quam qui sini animi ratione, viribus: And in such wars to abstain as much as is possible from [687] depopulations, burning of towns, massacring of infants, &c. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For example, the LIA might have been insolation changes or it might have been vegetation growth (resulting in CO2 reduction and albedo changes) due to concurrent disease-driven depopulations (Europe followed by the Americas), or by a combination of the two. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Sylla having thus dispatched him away, made an inroad into Maedica, and after wide depopulations returned back again into Macedon, where he received Archelaus about Philippi, bringing word that all was well, and that Mithridates earnestly requested an interview. ❋ Plutarch (2003)

I hadn't realised that world deaths or total depopulations happened so often, although I certainly wasn't one to make judgements along those lines. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1992)

British forces, to stir them up against the Roman insolency, that when they had finished their depopulations, then they said they had peace. ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)

Since the foundation of that town no epidemical distempers have appeared, which at times cause such depopulations in other countries; many of them are extremely well acquainted with the Indian methods of curing simple diseases, and practise them with success. ❋ J. Hector St. John De Cr��vecoeur (1774)