![]() Geography determines character, and character determines history. "History is a function of geography - of temperature, rainfall, soil, topography. Thousands of fertile acres were left untilled for lack of men, draft animals, or seed, or because peasants had no assurance that they could reap where they had sown." In some regions one might travel sixty miles without seeing a village or a house. Throughout the Empire hundreds of villages were left without a single inhabitant. Of 35K villages existing in Bohemia in 1618, some 29K were deserted during the conflict. Coun von Lutzow calculated a reduction of population in Bohemia from 3M to 800K. Moderate estimates recon a fall, in Germany and Austrial, from 21M to 13.5M. ![]() The decline has been exaggerated and was temporary, but it was catastrophic. ".the populaton of Germany rapidly declined during the war. ![]()
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