Two additional lectures on global demography have been uploaded on the GeoCurrents YouTube channel. The first covers the period from 700 to 1500, focusing on the Black Death of the mid-fourteenth century and its repercussions. The second lecture covers the period from 1500 to 1700. The first part of this lecture focuses on the depopulation of the Americas that occurred after 1500, due mainly to the introduction of infectious diseases from the Eastern Hemisphere. The second part of the lecture mostly covers the reduction of population that occurred in Europe and China in the mid-seventeenth century. This demographic downturn is generally linked to political instability and the effects of the little ice age.
