Why did the population keep growing despite two strains of plague causing the Black Death?

• A. War and famine
• B. Birth booming
• C. Medical breakthrough
• D. Immigration

Answer: (B)

The idea being tested is how populations rebound after a massive death toll, focusing on fertility trends after the crisis. After the Black Death, the number of births rose as survivors married and started families, and with fewer people competing for land and resources, households could support more children. This rise in birth rates helped the population recover and grow again even though plagues had caused enormous losses. War and famine would typically slow growth, there wasn’t a medieval medical breakthrough to stop the disease, and immigration wasn’t the main driver of Europe’s population change in this period. So the best answer is that births surged, fueling population growth.