Question

Consider the following statements and choose the correct option from the given options-. 1. Population grown rapidly during the sixteenth and seventeenth century. 2. Expansion of world trade during sixteenth and seventeenth century is an important cause of it. *

1 point

Only 1 is correct.

Only 2 is correct

Both the statements are incorrect

Both statements are correct and statement 2 correctly explains the statement 1.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Both the statement are incorrect

Answer 2

The correct option is Both statements are correct and statement 2 correctly explains the statement 1.​

• Between 10,000 BC and the first century AD, the local population increased by nearly ten thousand percent, from five million to 250 million people.
• Expanding international trade in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries created the reasonable ground for substantial population increase.
• Another factor represents the availability of food. New crops brought from the Americas to Asia and Europe also contributed to the modern continents' population increase.