Answer:
It was <u>flogging</u> (to hit repeatedly with a whip or stick).
All of the following are reasons for this change except "a growing population" since the population actually decreased
*Columbian
The Columbian Exchange greatly affected almost every society on earth, bringing destructive diseases that depopulated many cultures, and also circulating a wide variety of new crops and livestock that, in the long term, increased rather than diminished the world human population.
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