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What? I can't tell if this is a joke but the average person in the 1600s moved around a lot less than the average person today. I wouldn't be surprised if 80% o
by dmurray 5y ago
What? I can't tell if this is a joke but the average person in the 1600s moved around a lot less than the average person today. I wouldn't be surprised if 80% of them never left a ten-mile radius.
- kqr 5y agoWhich persons are you referring to? People in the Americas, in Australia, in Africa as well as probably other places I'm forgetting about easily traveled hundreds of miles and both shaped and joined communities other than the ones they were in before.
- dmurray 5y agoI'm talking about the overwhelming majority of people who did not have a nomadic lifestyle or typically travel long distances. By 1600, most of the world's 500 million people lived in what we would recognize as settled communities in modern-day India, China, Europe and the near/middle East [0]. Fewer than a million aboriginals lived in Australia and a few million in the US [1]. Nomadic lifestyles simply can't support anywhere close to the density achievable by even subsistence farming. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_in_1600 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_populat... [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_Indige...