<span>-satisfy the demands of competing nationalities.</span>
alternate passageway to China and the eastern trade markets, the exploitation of labor and resources in the new world and spreading European-style civilization.
Malthus believed that if a population is allowed to grow unchecked, people will begin to starve and will go to war over increasingly scarce resources, also Malthus cautioned that in order to avoid catastrophe such as famine and war, people should enact deliberate population control, such as birth control and celibacy.
