Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 46 Irish potato famine 42 famines 40 pestilence 39 calamity 38 potato famine 38 Black Plague 38 Napoleonic wars 37 drought 37 crisis 37 devastation 37 Great Depression 36 floods 36 droughts 36 Prohibition 36 Severe drought 36 boll weevil 36 frosts 36 Bolshevik revolution 36 Severe flooding 36 ravages 35 prolonged drought 35 heatwave 35 strawberry growers 35 Colonialism 35 calamities 35 natural disasters 35 devastating floods 35 epidemics 35 depredations 35 sugarcane crop 34 Napoleonic Wars 34 harvests 34 bumper harvests 34 epidemic 34 unseasonal rains 34 predations 34 Droughts 34 devastation wreaked 34 devastating bushfires 34 calamitous 34 revolt 34 invading armies 34 outbreak 34 catastrophe 34 ecological catastrophe 34 famine 34 #th century 34 overproduction 33 mad cow scare 33 recession 33 dry spell 33 ravaging 33 Depression 33 Great Recession 33 deluges 33 centuries 33 Franco dictatorship 33 affliction 33 devastating earthquake 33 dotcom bust 33 Hurricane Camille 33 winterkill 33 citrus crops 33 aridity 32 disasters 32 dry spells 32 damage wrought 32 crises 32 Roman Empire 32 hyperinflation 32 earthquake 32 Hurricane Hugo 32 dustbowl 32 upheavals 32 #.# magnitude earthquake 32 decimated 32 Civil War 32 bubonic plague 32 Entire neighborhoods 32 influenza epidemic 32 dot com meltdown 32 peach crop 32 cataclysm 32 economic downturn 32 depopulation 32 crop yields 32 crop 32 stem rust 32 disaster 32 civil strife 32 Whiskey Rebellion 32 twentieth century 32 flu epidemic 31 hailstorms 31 absinthe 31 Vanderbilts 31 prospered 31 bumper harvest 31 scourge 31 infernos 31 privation