Message from @Hamburger Guy
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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
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
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
I believe they were thinking fairly long term...
Since the black death was the Protestant reformation and absolutism
yes
In other countries religious institutions still rule
it was a major transition and i believe it was designed
They are really bad at it then because the Papacy has no power
the reformation introduced iatrochemistry on a large scale... the foundations of modern medicine
suddenly everything that came out of a mine could be sold as medicine, because the "tag along" of the reformation was empirical medicine vs worshipping Galen and etc
which practically speaking meant that they introduced mercury, arsenic, etc etc as primary treatments alongside venesection
So?
What does this have to do with the Black Death being a conspiracy perpetrated by the pope
Well the black death was just a more extreme form "population regulation"
You know what
DM me
sure thang
This is gonna take a while
lol right