Blog #3

I do not think that population growth was the most important development in the classical period. I think it was one of the most important. I think that trade was just as important as population growth. Population growth did help make more complex cities and faster methods of farming among a few things, but it also caused more diseases, deforestation, soil erosion, and made there be very little wood. Trade helped get materials that people could not farm even in large populations. It also probably helped get back things lost in the side effects of high population. Trade though would have been much harder if it were not for the population growth because with enough people, people will want more than just what they have since they can farm much better.