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| Jan 10, 2018 at 13:11 | comment | added | kingledion | @Philipp I suppose so, but then the answer to the OP's question is 'Yes, you can have overpopulation even with disease, just look how many famine there were through history." | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 11:58 | comment | added | Philipp | Isn't "having more people than you can farm food for" the very definition of overpopulation? Unless you have indoor farming technology, you will always run out of farmland before you run out of living space. Especially considering that farmland can be converted to living space. | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 23:50 | comment | added | Mazura | It was necessary for a couple to have as many children as possible because the amount of food one person can grow, beyond simple sustainability, increases dramatically with every extra hand available. Agriculture; +1. | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 20:17 | comment | added | J... | ...and also war. More people means more fighting, especially over land, (to manage starvation), which is required in much larger amounts per capita with medieval levels of technology. | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 15:57 | history | edited | Separatrix | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 9, 2018 at 15:55 | comment | added | Mazel | Very good question. I posted a similar comment on the question. There are a lot of medieval children's graves, even older children, where there is evidence of malnutrition. | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 15:53 | history | answered | kingledion | CC BY-SA 3.0 |