#3 True or False?

Population growth the most significant development of the Classical Period. True or False?

I think that population growth is an extremely significant development, but I don't think that it is the most important one. I think that the networks of exchange also played a huge part in the development of the Classical Period and the development of today for that matter. I think that they both worked together to hand in hand to create more complex societies and cultures. The network of trades were able to spread goods so that towns and cities would become more unified, making possible for empires to form. Population growth then was able to continue intensifying and was able to build great armies because of the network of trading, they were able to have new tools and learn new ways of warring. Also the trading of food and domesticated animals played a big part in the population growth, they were able to share different foods and animals making there resources supple and allowing there kingdoms to grow in population. If you could grow or supply more food (calories) per acre then you can have more people per acre, allowing the land to fill up and become more dense. Then when the cities and empires grew denser more and more people were living in close proximity with animals which led to diseases, which led to immunity, which led to longer life expectancy, which also led to more population growth. But without the network of exchange the population growth could not succeed, they worked together to become two of the most important developments of the Classical Period.