Historian Geoffrey Parker calls this conjuncture of climate change and social crises in the seventeenth century a “fatal synergy”
Climate change and war both created global instability
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As it was, the system of European interstate war favored a particular kind of state that developed in England and France in the seventeenth centuries,
The constant warfare helped shape England and France
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he early modern world was polycentric and not dominated by any one region
There was not necessarily a center to the world’s economy and trade
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It had a population probably in excess of 100 million,
The population growth created pressure on land and resources.
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Like famine, the plague was not a purely “natural” phenomenon
The black death shows how trade, the pressure of population, and disease all combined to cause a lot of change.
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generally warming conditions could mean larger harvests and a growing human population.
Population growth was partly controlled by Climate.
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as much as 80 percent of that population was farming peasants, people who lived on the land and were the direct producers of food for themselves and the non-farming population.
Most people at this time, depended on farming because food supply was limited due to the population growth.
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