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Originally Posted by Itz_molecular
I am not saying that . I am saying that people were at their absolute maximun fertility , women getting pregnant as often as possible , as long as possible and they were just staying static . That means a terrible death toll of those below the age of reproduction . ( only 2.1 children per couple need to survive for a static population , compensating for those naturally infertile. )
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However the population of the Mediterranean TRIPLED within 600 years.
This is a relatively easy problem to solve mathematically.
N(final) = N(initial)e^rt
So
3,000,000 = 1,000,000e^r30 (To find out how much growth there was per generation)
So it comes out that the rate is 3.66% per generation.
It's not bad for those times, obviously not a straight 2.00.
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My 17 of 19 children dying before adulthood , comes from monastic and church records of Medieval times across Europe . Churches had literate priests and they kept detailed records on births and deaths .
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That's strange considering that there was again a population boom right after the dip at the end of BC. Could you give a source to these documents? I heard smaller numbers.