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Re:Egyptian Circumnavigation of Africa ~600 BC by fsckboy on Thursday May 27, 2021 @05:13PM (#27308626)
I'm no expert, but China has much, much less arable land than Europe. Something needs to finance industrialization, and in preindustrial times, food was finance because that's what supported a growing population.
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Re:Egyptian Circumnavigation of Africa ~600 BC by gota on Thursday May 27, 2021 @05:49PM (#27308999)
Isn't that largely offset by cultivating a lot of rice, that being so much more efficient as a crop?

What other things are at play, for example, in Japan's bonkers hight population across history?

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