How many people lived in the Mexican territories annexed by the US?
What was the population of the areas annexed by the US from Mexico in the 1840s? Basically, "Texas,""California" and the area in between?
View ArticleMuslim population in Islamic Iberia
Is there a record or estimate of the Muslim population count in Iberia (Spain/Portugal) during the peak of Islamic rule? Probably 10th or 11th century?And how big was this in percent of all Iberian...
View ArticleWhat historical conditions (culture, technology, events, etc.) contributed to...
If their growth rate was comparable to the rest of the world over the past several millenia, then was it only a matter of having a "head start"? (If so, then how did this initial condition come to...
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Why does Latin America have a higher number of surviving Native Americans...
Despite having the same disease susceptibility and technological inferiority against the Europeans, it seems that Native Americans have much more surviving descendants in Latin America compared to...
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Why did the Eastern U.S. population decrease so much during WWII?
I was looking at this graph of the United States' population over time and noticed the dip in population for many Eastern states that starts around 1939 and ends in July of 1945.Obviously this...
View ArticleWhat were the demographics of New Orleans in the 1890s?
What were the demographics of New Orleans in the 1890s? Population, race, born overseas vs born in the US, that sort of thing. And what would be the best source to do more research about New Orleans in...
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Is there a population density map of pre-Columbian South America?
I have found such maps for North America, e.g. this one:But never for the southern continent. The goal is a broad overview. How many Lokono were there, compared to the Mapuche (and the Cree for that...
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When did Northern India and N. China begin to dominate in global demographics?
Video: Human Population Through TimeThis simple video says that there were 170 million people in the world at the beginning of the current era. Each dot represents a million people -there are about 170...
View ArticleWhat was the estimated population living in Egypt around 1446 BC?
The biblical narrative in Exodus 11 tells that all firstborn sons of Egypt died in a single night. While maybe there's no historical evidence of that, it would be interesting to know what was the...
View ArticleAre there any scientific estimates for the population of Mycenaean Greece?
There are a lot of population estimates for Greece of antiquity (from the Archaic period circa VIII century B.C. to the late Roman times of Theodosius 395 A.D.) in academic publications. Also, I found...
View ArticleAre there any examples of overpopulation?
Malthus was one of the first one who raised the concern about overpopulation and it is today seen as a potential threat to humanity.Are there any historical examples where overpopulation led to...
View ArticleWere death rates greater than birth rates in premodern urban populations?
In the book by Peter Turchin, War and Peace and War. The rise and fall of empires, on page 151, I found the following sentence:Until modern times, death rates of urban populations always outweighed...
View ArticleWhy are many African-Americans in Mississippi concentrated in the...
I was looking at a 2016 election map of Mississippi. I saw a that most of it was red, but the western part looked very blue. I looked up one of those counties, and not surprisingly for an American deep...
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Why is there a cutoff in population density running through the middle of the...
There is this interesting line cutting across the US in terms of population density. It cuts through Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. East is higher population density excluding some small...
View ArticleWhat was the ratio women to men after World War 2 in the Soviet Union
I can imagine that after World War 2 the ratio of women versus men changed drastically.During World War 2, Soviet casualties amounted to over 20,000,000, and as military casualties were almost all men...
View ArticleHow many 'pubs' (alehouses, inns and taverns) were there in England in 1577?
I came across an interesting bit of demographic information while listening to a lecture:From early times people had rented out space in their houses fortravellers, but by the thirteenth century Inns...
View ArticleWhat was the estimated population of the Mississippi Valley before contact...
According to Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel (p. 211), the Mississippi Valley used to contain populous Indian societies:When we in the United States think of the most populous New Worldsocieties...
View ArticleDemographics: Were diseases the sole reason for the decrease in native...
Wikipedia says:After Europeans and mainland Americans first arrived during the Kingdom of Hawaii period, the overall population of Hawaii, until that time composed solely of indigenous Hawaiians, fell...
View ArticleWhat were the demographics of the ancient Greek colonies of Cyprus (any...
Are there any estimates on the ancient populations of Cyprus from 500BCE to 1BCE.What were the demographics of the ancient Greek colonies of Cyprus (any population estimates from 500BCE to 1BCE will...
View ArticleWhat were the demographics of the ancient Crete (any population estimates...
I am looking for any estimates on the population of ancient Crete in the time period 500BCE to 1BCE.I have searched for such estimates on google but I haven't found anything relevant.(Note: The prior...
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Why do Eastern European countries have the greatest female-to-male ratio?
I'm taking a Data Analysis class where we go over some data samples. Today we went over the world population data from 1950 to 2015.We noticed that the proportion of females to males was the highest in...
View ArticleDid nomadic Bedouins outnumber sedentary Arabs in 7th century Arabian peninsula?
In the present states like UAE, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, were there more nomadic people than sedentary or settled Arab peoples during the 7th century?
View ArticleWhen did Turkic languages emerge in Central Asia? [closed]
Consider the countries Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. They speak Turkic languages (alongside some Russian). It was primarily Iranic people (Scythians and Persians) who lived in...
View ArticleHow common were ethnically mixed villages in pre-WWII Czechoslovakia?
I was trying to find out whether the treaties that determined the post-war borders of Czechoslovakia were partly motivated as a punishment for the history of oppression by the German and Hungarian...
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When and how did the Han ethnic group become by far the biggest ethnic group...
China is a very ethnic homogenous country, one ethnic group, the Han make up 92 % of China's population.Huaxia refers to a confederation of tribes—living along the YellowRiver—who were the ancestors of...
View ArticleHow many Dutch lived in Indonesia during the colonial era vs native population?
In Indonesian education, it is often emphasized that the Dutch took advantage of "divide and conquer" tactics (and superior technology) to keep ruling Indonesia (then the Dutch East Indies) despite...
View ArticleWhy was France's birth rate low from 1800 to WWII?
Inspired by this lemma on Wikipedia as well as a few paragraphs here and there in Piketty's Capital in the 21st century I'm asking the question how the low birth rate in France between 1800 and WWII...
View ArticleWhy were there more Catholics in Lancashire than other parts of England...
The abstract of this article begins "Historians are generally agreed that Lancashire was the most Catholic and the most Jacobite county in England at the time of the 1715 rebellion".The Wikipedia...
View ArticleDid the Crisis of the late Middle Ages cause a notable expansion of...
There was a lot of wild forest in the early Middle Ages, around 75% in the 9th century according to Wikipedia, much of which was cleared during the population boom in the High Middle Ages. I also read...
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During the time of the German Empire, were Polish or Jewish people permitted...
According to Wikipedia, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) of Germany was founded in 1890. The German empire was founded in 1871:Inside of this territory, there were many people who were ethnically...
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