I'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

I'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...