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Picking a round number of 200MM people in the world at the time [1], this is 0.1% of the entire population killed in a single event, which is staggering. [1] -
by an_account_name 11y ago
Picking a round number of 200MM people in the world at the time [1], this is 0.1% of the entire population killed in a single event, which is staggering.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population_estimates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population_estimates
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- meric 11y agoAll the more staggering because back in those times the majority of the world population resided in China and India. At around 0 A.D, there were 100M people in India and 58M people in China[1][2], leaving a few tens of millions in the rest of the world. By the way, in the 202BC battle of Gaixia, 250,000 people died in a world of 150M people[3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history#India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history#India [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gaixia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gaixia
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