Practice question · Multiple choice
Medieval European population doubled between 1000 and 1300, then agricultural output per person barely changed. This pattern is best explained by:
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- Were there agricultural improvements between 1000 and 1300?
- Yes — heavy plough, three-field rotation — but per-capita income didn't rise.
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D. The Malthusian trap: more people, same land
Why
Innovations happened (heavy plough, horseshoe, three-field rotation) but they translated into more people, not richer people, textbook Malthusian dynamics.
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