Message from @Hamburger Guy
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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
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
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..
The black death not only destroyed feudalism but also the Papacy
By shifting the balance of powers to the king and the towns