Complex sentence: Price inflation, which generally reflects growing demand for food, suggests that this probably expanded in the first half of the sixteenth century, levelling off after the famine of 1595, as prices were relatively stable in the early seventeenth century.
Split into simpler sentences: Price inflation, which generally reflects growing demand for food, suggests that this probably expanded in the first half of the sixteenth century. The population expansion probably levelled off after the famine of the 1590s, as prices were relatively stable in the early seventeenth century.