Low-Tech Kingdom Population Density?

[Agemegos]

Originally Posted by Sunrunners_Fire

She didn't specify their food sources. I've been assuming an oceanic 'warm' temperate climate, with easy access to plentiful sea food. Rice should be acceptable.

What about climate? Wet rice agriculture will produce more than three crops per year, indefinitely, given a year-round growing season. But if there is a winter cold enough that plants stop growing you get only two, and if the winter is at all long and cold, only one.

Also, what about landform? Rice fields have to be level and edged by bunds so that they can be flooded, and have drains so that they can be drained. And they need water supplies with catchments and tanks and aqueducts: if the rains are seasonal water storage has to be huge. The kind of landscape actually prepared to grow three crops of rice per year has had a lot of work done on it, and is distinctive.

Java is fantastic.

What is "champa"?

It's as close as my memory came to "chinampa" without checking. Sorry.