HIST 1011 Lecture 5: 27FEB
Document Summary
Speeds up econ, drives land growth and cultivation, encourages science to better understand nature, to better grow crops, to make better metal tools. Population, wealth, power all seen as connected-- physiocrats --the state"s wealth and power is measured by its population first. Population growth--settlement on frontiers vs urbanization; important to note that the frontier was not unsettled, it was just europeans moving in on native lands and wiping people out. Rising populations--china doubled from 1700-1800; europe doubled 1700-1800; americas rose by x6; ottoman and persian empires static. More peoples in cities--guangzhou in china had more people than all of european capitals combined.
