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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by baby booms events usually followed by

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a swift diaper change All right take a look at

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the chart right there And now for our question Which

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of the following what have contributed most directly that the

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population growth in europe after sixteen fifty and hear your

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potential answers with the match dot com is not one

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of them All right well so for some reason europe

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suddenly became a baby making factory after sixteen fifty maybe

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there was a particularly successful seventeenth century tour by marvin

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gaye Or uh well maybe there was some other reason

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so let's start by taking a look at option a

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technology was steadily improving but it didn't directly affect population

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growth We'll have to wait for a literal baby making

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factory for that To be true we can also eliminate

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choice d trade with china brought lots of great things

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like porcelain noodles and cookies that predict your future While

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actually modern fortune cookies were invented by japanese american in

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san francisco around nineteen hundred qianjin beside the point is

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that nothing coming out of china back in the sixteen

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Fifties was boosting europe's baby crop option c isn't the

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worst guest we've ever seen the fact that europe was

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getting steadily wealthier by robbing the new world definitely didn't

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put a damper on the baby boom but most of

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that wealth wasn't exactly trickling down to the baby making

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mass is it's not like the king's everywhere were going

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around giving their subjects bags of gold and telling them

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tio you know get busy procreate that would be pretty

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creepy actually Anyway answer b is what we're looking for

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Whether it was the arrival of spuds to the emerald

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isle or that happy introduction of tomatoes to pasta in

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italian kitchens the new world introduced new foods to the

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old world Well sure it made life for europeans more

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delicious but it also offered enough new nutritional staples to

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spark a baby boom and by spark a baby boom

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We don't mean that all the babies exploded that wouldn't

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have grown the population very much at all What it

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Well that it also be a pretty grim way to

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