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Show Early World Famines In the Uth and 12th centuries, famine is recorded every 14 years, on an average, and the people suffered suf-fered 20 years of famine in 200 years. In the 13th century the iist exhibits the same proportion of famine; the addition of five years ot high prices makes the proportion greater. Upon the whole, scarcities decreased during the three following follow-ing centuries; but the average from 1201 to 1600 tj the same, namely, seven famine's and 10 years of famine fam-ine in a century. . |