Message from @mixmasterJ
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generally speaking
I don't understand
Medicine phased out bloodletting. It fell out of fashion. I believe bloodletting was probably the CORE of regulating population levels from time immemorial.
however they've developed a more sophisticated system
The Native Americans didn't practice that...
Very Eurocentric of you
Depends on the tribe but yea
Right so
If medicine is used to reduce population, why has the population being going up very quickly since introduction?
I'm talking about the civilizations that conquered and such
took over the world etc
I mean medicine has always existed
So then why did the population grow so quickly during the High Middle Ages?
I mean the modern form
you're talking about vaccines and antibiotics etc
aye...
Food surplus
basically the population will always grow pretty much uncontrollably.
unless there is a system that regulates it
and so for thousands of years ... out of necessity... systems of population regulation have existed
historically
Again ruling powers wouldn't wouldn't want to depopulate
I disagree with you there...
Well
Like i said
lets not say depopulate... regulate...
ie increase death levels.... i
decrease birth rates
etc etc
large scale thinking
Highly centralized empires like China also wanted population growth
Their entire system was based on agrarian society
From rice paddy distribution etc
Sure but there still has to be some form of putting the brakes on
And I already repeated myself enough about the High Middle Ages
@mixmasterJ the Black Death only spread to China under the Yuan Dynasty
Not the native centralized dynasties
I haven't studied its progress through the east much
Well you should