Population needed for technology levels.

[kalos72]

Well I am thinking its a couple of things...

One would be location. 20000 people living off the coast of Maine arent going to have the skills or equipment to build anything too sophisticated unless some effort was spend to locate, secure and transport that type of equipment back home.

Two is population - Yes the more people you have the more assumed free manpower for added projects or industries. But it also means more headaches in trying to feed/shelter and secure those people as well. A small well trained camp of the right people could make the same products, just less of them.

Training is something that either situation will need to invest in I think.