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Originally Posted by Arragonis
It took nearly 500 years and a nice warm climatic period (shhh, we aren't allowed to mention that now  ) to help population growth. |
Remember that correlation is not causation. If you look at the history with more than a superficial search for something useable for climate change denial, you'll find that the increase in European agricultural productivity was very strongly linked to the introduction of the horse collar. (Rome, of course, imported much of its grain from North Africa, and used the slave-worked latifunda system...)
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And what did that population growth produce ?
Disaster, starvation ?
Well, not quite.
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Well, it was a disaster if you weren't really enthusiastic about being ruled by the Church. (And I'll see your cathedral, and raise you Stonehenge. Or FTM a Hagia Sophia or a Parthenon :-)) Just as I imagine many of the Egyptian peasantry weren't totally appreciative of the Pyramids, and I'm not real happy about paying taxes to support athletic stadiums. Nor do I see any of these as showing an improvement in individual quality of life, but as evidence of the power of a government/religion that could compel people to build these things.