Dwapara Yuga - Little Ice Age, Old and New Worlds

If it were not for the Columbian Exchange from 1492 to 1700, the beginning of Dwapara Yuga, it is doubtful that the social changes associated with the agricultural, industrial and democracy movements could have taken place.

Although hard to realize from our present time, modern staples such as corn, potatoes and even tomatoes, avocados and chocolate came from the New World of the Americas to the old World of Europe.

These new vegetable products provided basic foodstuffs for workers and livestock alike as well as spicing otherwise bland dishes with products like chili peppers.

The little ice age corresponded to the exact same period, seeing the move of most of Europe from wheat to potatoe-based diets. Potatoes could not only better survive the cold but were less vulnerable to the crop-destroying tactics of modern scorched-earth warfare.

The arrogant French refused potatoes as "dirty foods", with bread riots leading into the 1789 Revolution, spurred not by revolutionary ideology but starvation. The revolution lead not to liberty, brotherhood and equality but a reign of terror, settling petty scores in cities, towns and villages followed by years of dictatorship with Napoleon's killing half of the populace in wars.

Even in the past decade, when restaurants in Nice, France tried to charge for bread it was a huge social scandal, touching the idea of bread insecurity in the French collective karma.