blog 3 (12-7-11)

When population increased, it had mostly positive effects on society. Work/jobs became more productive because each job was filled with more employees. The more people at a job meant better work, because as the number of people increased, the ideas and the quality of those ideas improved. More people also meant more opinions, more knowledge, and more people to finish a job in a quicker amount of time. A raise in population also resulted in less isolation between one another. When there was a larger population than it was harder for people to separate themselves from each other, and disregard themselves from society. When there was an abundance of people, than they were almost forced to interact and benefit from one another. The government, the environment, and food supply were three things that were hard to control when the population rose. Food was a hard variable to control because just because there was enough food in the world whether it was from farming/agriculture, or industries/productions, the food does not get distributed fairly or evenly.  The environment is something that will always be present for as long as we can see, and it is up to the humans living in the environment to treat it how they want, and use it to their advantage. Better ways of efficiently and fairly using land were introduced when the population increased because when the population was significantly higher than before, issues regarding the environment almost demanded to be solved. In other words, without organizing the environmental situations, it would be hard for people to function and sustain life. Along with growth population, the privacy and the advancements in agriculture were two apparent topics that arose with a larger population count. As for government, “feudalism” was introduced. Feudalism at its’ core was a government with no organized state. After one government collapsed, such as Charlemagne’s empire, whose responsibility was it to step up? In the feudal system, a “count” was a individual man who worked to build up his strength and confidence against other counts. Counts attempted to become superior within the lesser lords in the area. Ultimately, the lord and vassal system manifested itself and a lord protected his vassal and assured him land. If a vassal died young, the lord took over and slowly inherited what the vassal had. Feudalism spread throughout Europe, and once the French Revolution began, after that Germany elected a king. Different forms of government throughout history learned from each other and impacted one another. Especially in feudalism, no one was sovereign and the lords and vassals benefited from one another by motivating each other and splitting work.