All of the Following Contributed to the Growth of Population

question 63

Multiple Choice

All of the following contributed to the growth of population in the second half of the eighteenth century EXCEPT

• A)a decline in the death rate.
• B)new crops from America such as corn and potatoes.
• C)the eradication of typhus and smallpox.
• D)the end of the bubonic plague.
• E)an increase in women who married during their child-bearing years.

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