Transitioning between The Age of Pestilence and Famine and The Age of Receding Pandemics is the first step that marks growth and sustainability. During The Age of Pestilence and Famine, human life depended solely on survival. The population growth was unsustainable due to little to no health services, poor living standards, and unpredictable food security. These factors made the population highly susceptible to disease and illness because their bodies were highly malnutritioned, hey lived in unsanitary environments, and it was easy for pandemics to hit the population because the population’s bodies had no way to defend against it. Not only did the population lack defense they lacked knowledge about what diseases were, which further contributed
