Talk:A Bad Past (Map Game)/@comment-5590986-20170427191102/@comment-5590986-20170427193806

@Aen

okay here:

Industrialization actually led to the sharp rise of the world population between 1700 to 2000. It shot from 1 billion in 1800s (mostly pre-industrial) to 7 billion (post-industrial) in 2000s in 200 years. In this, industrial revolution never happened yet.

It's likely that if the plague never had a real effect, lets put the world population doubled by 1800 aka  2 billion (due to urbanization thanks to the waves of the plague and other things, but not from industrial revolution. Despite the plague existing in China but native Americans still living helped balance it out). It can take another reasonable 200 years for world to reach 3.5 Billion people.

However, since the tech year is a bit over 1450, Europe's population would be in danger (because evolutionary point of view, the more stronger people survived the plague and reproduced, so it's building up) and world reached 3.5 Billion at this time. So you Europe probably would have a anvil above your heads (unless the plague happened in earlier chapters but it would not made the world population 3.5 billion in 2000s in this game)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population