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... and in a backwater colony with a population of 2 1/2 million or so. There are metro areas today with that kind of population, look at the kind of leadershi
by andyv 8y ago
... and in a backwater colony with a population of 2 1/2 million or so. There are metro areas today with that kind of population, look at the kind of leadership they end up with.
- megaman22 8y agoThe past is such a weird place, not least because there's just so few people actually in it. The 19th and 20th century revolutions in agricultural technology exploded the numbers of human beings on the planet, particularly coming on the heels of the depopulation of the Americas in the 16th and 17th centuries.