Shouldn't Japan be 7 m? If I got it right you counted the dots on the sources map that each stand for a million People. At first it looks like Japan has 6 but if you zoom in you see 7.
A lot of places that are the best for agriculture also tend to be very flood prone. The same could be said of the Nile and the Yellow River, not to mention many other parts of the India subcontinent.
The Black Death hit the world hard in the 1300s which is long time after 1000 ad. All these countries' populations would probably be larger in 1400 than in 1000.
Not many people could live in Russia because it was hard to farm there. In the south and east, the dry steppes resulted in most people being pastoralists. In western Russia, it was a little different, but most agricultural techniques that allowed for heightened food production were slow to arrive.
Yeah, the two biggest population centres for the Islamic Caliphate(s) at the time. I thought Iraq would be here too, but perhaps it's too small? It's estimated that Baghdad alone had around 1m people at the time, but sources vary.
I wonder how the world would be if we had the standard of living of the 21st century but the demography of the year 1000.
Also, I wonder what the world could be in the year 3000. I believe forecasts depend on the race between uncontrolled economic/population growth and the pursuit of (an obviously unreachable level of) sustainable development, and on a second race between nature-palliative technology and natural/human disasters.
I find it hard to believe that places like Russia, the US and Brazil don’t make these lists because of their sheer size. I get that there’s no reliable data for them, but there isn’t much for any of the countries.
In Russia and Brazil, there wasn't very much agriculture or even arable land which drastically reduced the maximum populations of the regions. In the US there was some agriculture, however, it was labor-intensive, which also reduced the maximum amount of food the region could produce.
Do you acknowledge the fact that Jesus died to save us, or do you go hunting for eggs in your backyard? God sent His own son Jesus to take our place so that we didn't have to die for our sins, and He was resurrected on the third day. Let us never forget the true meaning of Easter and how it shows God's amazing love for us.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
John 3:16
"He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay."
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Also, I wonder what the world could be in the year 3000. I believe forecasts depend on the race between uncontrolled economic/population growth and the pursuit of (an obviously unreachable level of) sustainable development, and on a second race between nature-palliative technology and natural/human disasters.
Do you acknowledge the fact that Jesus died to save us, or do you go hunting for eggs in your backyard? God sent His own son Jesus to take our place so that we didn't have to die for our sins, and He was resurrected on the third day. Let us never forget the true meaning of Easter and how it shows God's amazing love for us.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
John 3:16
"He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay."
Matthew 28:6
It didn't exist until the 1800s when it rebelled from Spain.
This quiz is wrong.
If you do count Mexico, then remove the answer Mexico and add the Mexico population to Spain.