Why Did the Population of Europe Increase So Dramatically During

question 51

Multiple Choice

Why did the population of Europe increase so dramatically during the early Middle Ages?

• A) A warming trend allowed for higher production of food.
• B) There was an absence of epidemics.
• C) The economy revived because of commercial trade.
• D) All of these
• E) Nobody knows.

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Percentile

A measure indicating the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations falls.

Normal Random Variable

A variable whose values are distributed according to a normal distribution.

Mean

A measure of central tendency that is calculated by summing the values in a dataset and dividing by the number of values.

Normal Curve

A bell-shaped curve that depicts the distribution of data points in a way where most of the observations cluster around the mean, showing the properties of symmetry and asymptotic tails.