- food necessary
- man & woman need relationships
- ratio stay same (people to population)
- can't overgrow
- nature will correct itself
- pop. increases geometrically & mathematically
- human pop. increases most
- doubles every 25 years
- no check in pop. = overgrowth
- death rate increases
- impossible not to reproduce
- european pop. = more kids
- native american pop. = miscarraiges (women = slaves)
- more food = pop. increases
- barbarian pop. fight w/ each other = balanced pop.
- england poor laws
- children dieing
- money 4 poor not helping
- always be poor
- pop. increase = less food 4 poor
- good intentions
- blame leaders
- healthy countries increase pop.
- Mexico, Spain, etc. high pop. w/ taxes & tyranny
- more room = more support
- natural disasters frequently affect pop.
- North American colonies rapid pop. growth
- Dutch / French colonies worst gov.
- pop. increase faster than food = famine
- harsh seasons = poor quality or no food
- plague = great increase in pop. = greater increase in pop. - surplus food
- famine & sickness = checks
"Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith
- working = money to spend
- surplus produce = purchase needed stuff
- judgement and skill of labor
- number of people working
- kids disposed of
- those who can't work get free stuff
- labor bad = low production
- small groups = small production
- more supplies needed = more people = more separate groups
- less educated = working more
- don't need to know trade
- more goods made
- more wealth
- better products
- private land = landlord gets products pf labor
- every worker needs a master
- sometimes workman is own master
- rent = cost of use of land
- better land = higher rent
- easy profit for landlord
- demands rent even when land's not improved
- improved land = higher rent
- renting = monopoly game
- people took up land but didn't divide it up
- when land thought of as entertainment, it should be split between everyone in family
- when land thought of as more than entertainment, it should ALL be given to ONE person
- landlords like kings & every other form of government
- land given to landlord's children, like a monarchy
- prefer to give land to male kids
- if qualities equal, then oldest child receives land (because oldest usually is most educated) through lineal succession
- written laws out of date but still in use
- right of primogeniture states that 1st owner of patch of land will always own that land unless sold or taken by gov.
- purpose of law of primogeniture is to secure lineal succession of owners of patch of land according to owner's choices
- if land stays in family, gov. gets more money from property taxes
- after fall of roman empire people came from all over
- increase in taxes
- tax for protection (annual poll tax)
- pay fee to king to work on farms (pay commission)
