Project: Economics and demography from the ground up

[Gwrthefyr]

And would have included beneftis from the Agro revolution, but once I get my hands back on it, Napoleon III had an aside on food consumption statistics in France in his socialist pamphlet Extinction du Pauperisme. While wheat consumption was roughly equal (I don't remember the units), the rich consumed about 1kg of meat daily (a sixth in the working class), usw for wine and sugar.

The old Medieval Demographics article considered a max of roughly 180 people per settled square mile*, with at most 2/3 settled (that would probably have accoutned for the density of places like Flanders) in the low Middle Ages/pre-Renaissance period.

*Thinking of it; besides the lapsus (180/acre would have been high-end urban density), for others who can't be bothered to make the conversion, that's slightly less than 70/km2