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6 million sounds way to high a number.

My Copy of Livi-Bacci´s A concise history of world population gives the population of Europe (excluding the areas in the cold war USSR) to 31 million around year 0. With a similar distribution of population as today the Gael of the time should have had a population of around 4 million...

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by A swedish kind of death on Thu Jun 7th, 2007 at 09:22:49 AM EST
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Can't say 6 million for sure. I read that somewhere and was amazed. I also read Tamerlane killed 6 million Indians during one campaign in the Hindu Kush. Can't verify that either, but believe that was from a well-known book on Central Asia.

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by Gringo (stargazing camel at aoldotcom) on Fri Jun 8th, 2007 at 04:48:49 PM EST
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6 million sounds like a Holocaust comparison. Maybe what was meant is a similar population ratio as Hitler in Poland. At any rate, Caesar was a butcher, who proudly detailed how his troops slaughtered entire tribes (including women and children), but modern admirers of his military genius forget to mention that.

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by DoDo on Wed Jul 4th, 2007 at 06:52:43 AM EST
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