took over the world etc

I mean medicine has always existed

https://youtu.be/VN4ycMwCsBk

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

one of the primary forms of this is medicine

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

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/mach/amp/ncna991061

@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

but in Europe I know there were real conspiracies to spread it, and the recommended treatments were harmful/lethal

Because even for a eurocentric idea it falls flat quickly

the pope issued proclamations telling people to inhale sewer gas to cure it

Are you suggesting the Black Death doesn't kill?

well going back to my original theory...

The Pope would want people to live

Not necessarily

Yes

sometimes they want more, sometimes less..