Did medieval peasants have more children on average than royalty? Or is this a modern phenomenon?
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That depended on a great many things like where they lived and what the families did.
In cases like farming, you often need a lot of workers to manage the farm, and the chance of dying as a child was high so people had a lot of kids.
But people living in towns and cities needed fewer kids, so had fewer
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