3. Population Growth in the Classical Period

  i believe that population growth was the most significant development of the classical period because it contributed the progression of humanity, in aspects such as deforestation, increase in the complexity of societies, the spread of learning, and expanding networks. with more people living together, came access to more skills, knowledge and power; but it also meant more mouths to feed. Luckily with so many people harvesting and farming were fairly easy, yet over time, trees, plants, and animals that the society needed slowly became smaller and smaller in numbers. (i.e. deforestation and extinction.) The spread of learning included the progress of technology, also having so many people living together allowed there to be more innovations being created; things that benefited farming, transpiration and other things.

Cities were also becoming more complex creating or establishing their own hierarchy, currency, transportation, armies, and trade routes. Larger populations also benefited the functioning and effectiveness of trade. With more people it was easier to trade with civilizations not just neighboring them but also farther away places. Places like Afro Eurasia had many trades routes leading all throughout the area. Trade was not only responsible for spreading resources but also religion. The dominating religions being spread during this time included Hinduism, Judaism, buddhism, and Christianity.

So as you can tell population itself led to complexity in societies, expansion in networks and more, which then led to things like the spread of religion, new resources increase in technology and more. The growth of population pushed humanity one huge step closer to becoming what it is now.