Tags: icons in new york, jaiku icon, free 16x16 icons, bless the fall icons, icons lines Time. So that the statistics asserting that from 80 to 90 % of the population was It is taken in agriculture, should be a little corrected, that To become comparable to modern statistics, according to which in this sector 5 % of the population are taken only. But to the statistican of distribution of the population between City and village it is not necessary to change. The modern world it is irreversible It was urbanised, whereas medieval was, undoubtedly, rural. That production of a foodstuff takes so the large part of the population, Testifies to unreliability of victualling; it also was the basic Threat for a life in medieval company. [Wishing to study and understand Past company should realise that about hundred years ago it was still Mainly agricultural. Farms absorbed such enormous part Work that all other economic possibilities have been essentially limited. To Still it vulnerability concentration on grain, in summary conducted Well-being depended on productivity of the one and only culture that Reminds a situation with monocultures on the tropical and subtropical earths. The vital base of the European company was based on narrow and dangerously astable To basis, and the person aspired to expand and strengthen centuries this basis. It H. Slicher van Bath, The Agrarian History of Western Europe (London: Edward Arnold, 1966), pp. 3 - 4.] the Poor harvest could be local - because of a drought, Attacks on fields of insects-wreckers or occurrence of armies, - and then it It was possible to soften consequences with purchases and it the foodstuffs Whence-or nearby. About the lowest possibilities of medieval trade and Transport to deliver a foodstuff the small sizes of cities testify. In XV century Cologne could support only 20 thousand inhabitants [Braudel, Structure of Everyday Life, pp. 51 - 52] in spite of the fact that it was at merge of two Sleeves of Rhine and from the point of view it the foodstuffs has been possessed much More favourably, than the majority of medieval cities. For the majority of people in