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How Did The Population Increase in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Affect Life In The Countryside and In The Towns?  

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How Did The Population Increase in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Affect Life In The Countryside and In The Towns? May 2003 Submitted by: - 0163330/1 Submitted to: - Frank Boyton Word Count: - 2000 Words In this essay I am going to argue how the population increase in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries affected life in the countryside and the towns. Historians, such as, J.A. Sharpe argue that the population was rising in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, but by the mid seventeenth century the population increase stagnated. The causes of the population rise, however, still remain a subject of speculation. The population did bring about differing and similar effects for the towns and villages. The problem of domestic inflation affected both town and country. Due to the increase in the population it was necessary to increase agricultural production in order to be able to feed the population. This had important effects on...

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