For thousands of years our population was roughly the same

seriously, it is a fact that their systems of medicine killed and maimed and accomplished no good outside of placebo

Where was our resilience then?

the population explosion is a result of enormous changes that occured in the last 200 years.

That enormous change was medicine and diet.

Medicine was a major factor... but the biggest change was getting rid of bloodletting and dramatically lowering the dosages of some of the poisons they prescribed.

Ie... medicine became significantly less lethal in the last 100 years

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

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