Demographic transition model

Question 1

The DTM

Answer 1

-5 stage diagram
Based on the experience of England after 1700

Question 2

Stage 1: before 1750

Answer 2

-death rates high (black death wiped out 1/3 of Europe in 14th century)
-famine due to bad weather
- war
- birth rate high due to high infant mortality so more kids needed to work as most families were farmers

Question 3

fluctuations in stage 1 caused by

Answer 3

• birth rate rises and death rate falls at times of good harvest
  -bad harvests, war, disease cause fallen birth rates and higher death rates. Women married later in these times
  *Because birth rate and death rate were high at opposing times they cancelled each other out and natural increase rates were low.

Question 4

stage 2: 1750-1880

Answer 4

death rate fell due to:
- better hygiene reduced death
Johns snows research linking cholera and polluted wells in soho London
- late 19th century government created municipal corporations created and built sewer systems to take waste away from cities and treat it.
-agricultural revolution (improved farming methods) and import of grain from North America meant more successful crops and more food available.