Further settlement occurred during the next Venetian-Turkish war (1700 - 1715), the Russian-Turkish war (1768 - 1774) and also during the Greek revolution (1821), which moulded the social and cultural evolution of Hydra. Thus, Argosaronikus, insignificant until this period, numbered 27,000 inhabitants. This demographic explosion had positive and negative consequences regarding social progress. The most positive being, were the development of trade and the rapid progress of shipping.