I would definetly assume so. They survived one around 1700 BC but didn't recover after the one at Knossos. So, getting hit by two powerful earthquakes, within a span of a couple hundred years, earthquakes that shook your cities to rubble would definetly inspire fear at the sound or feel of one.
The Freedman's Bureau was created to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South after the Civil War. Giving them education and medical help was very important in helping them recover from the revolution and helped the freedmen to be able to live on their own.
Isaac Newton argued that the geometric nature of reflection and refraction of light could only be explained if light were made of particles, referred to as corpuscles because waves do not tend to travel in straight lines. Newton sought to disprove Christiaan Huygens' theory that light was made of waves.
They both focused on reforestation and land restoration. They were both government-run construction programs. They both provided government support for labor unions.
