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Why do Wikipedia's and Guinness World Records's measurements of the Achaemenid Empire's percentage of world population differ?
Wikipedia gives population estimates for the Achaemenid Empire of between 17 and 35 million people (but without a year). Given that, at best, very few population records that may have existed at that ...
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Why do Wikipedia's and Guinness World Records's measurements of the Achaemenid Empire's percentage of world population differ?
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia with a firm no-first-hand-research policy; i.e., any fact contained in any article must be supported by a reliable source. Wikipedia itself (nor its contributors) has ...
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How many Jews lived in Rome in the period immediately before (and during) the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE)?
Any number given that even approaches a resemblance of exactness seems well beyond our grasp. Very rough estimates is likely all we can begin to hope to get out of the most recent scholarship. Trying ...
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Did humans live more densely in the past, and if so, how much denser?
(Note this answer cannot answer the 'maximum people per square foot/meter of living space', but presents a more general bit of useful information concerning the variation of population typically found ...
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Did humans live more densely in the past, and if so, how much denser?
Inuit igloos historically housed entire families and rarely exceeded 4.5 m in diameter, an area of 16 m^2 or about 160 sq. ft. With family sizes often above a dozen, that's in excess of 70 people per ...
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