What were the three main dangers that still threatened the population of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries?

By the middle of the 16th and early 17th centuries, great changes in the life of the population took place in Europe. Urban growth contributed to population growth. Developing science – medicine has increased life expectancy, reduced mortality of children and women in childbirth. Good harvests gave people the opportunity not to starve. But human life was not protected from wars that brought devastation, death, hunger. After the hostilities, the fields remained uncultivated, the belligerents took food from the population and this led to hunger. The population became victims of epidemics and violence from the military or gangs of starving robbers. Hunger, disease, war – these were three scourges that continued to threaten the population of Europe.