EUH1000 Chapter 18: APE Ch.18 Outline
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Long standing obstacles to population growth. By 1600, the pressure on population on resources was severe in much of europe, and widespread poverty was an undeniable reality. Because of this, population growth slowed and stopped in 17th century europe. Births and deaths, fertility and mortality, were in balance. Population grew in normal years at a rate of 0. 5 to 1 percent. In abnormal years and tragic events, the black death was the most extreme. Numbers of years of modest growth were required to make up for those who had died in an abnormal year. Grim reapers of demographic crisis were famine, epidemic disease, and war. Famine low yields and periodic crop failures, stunned and weakened populations and was murderous accompanied by diseases. War soldiers passed contagious diseases, scarce food supplies and disrupted agricultural cycle while battles destroyed crops and farmlands. The new pattern of the 18 th century.
