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World populations in 1500
Total 425 million
Asia 280 million (about the same percentage of total as today!)
Europe 80 million
Africa 46 million
Americas 14 million
Oceania 2 million
Other 3 million ("ethnics" – estimate of tribes/bands/chiefdoms on the
peripheries that would never have been censused)
China 110 million
India 105 million
Japan 17 million
Ottoman/Turkish Empire 10 million
North Africa 8 million
West Africa 11 million
Congo area 8 million
East Africa 6 million
Central Mexico 5 million
Andes (Inca) 4 million
(these last two could be a significant undercount; there are no records
from the native peoples)
Population of world cities in 1500
1. Peking 672,000
2. Vijayanagar 500,000 (south India)
3. Cairo 450,000
4. Hangchow 375,000
5. Nanking 285,000
6. Canton 250,000
Tabriz 250,000 (Persian Empire)
8. Paris 225,000
. . . . . .
18. Naples 125,000
20. Venice 115,000
22 Milan 104,000
Africa
Fez 125,000
Tunis 75,000
Gao 60,000
Sub-Saharan Africa
Oyo 50,000
Kano 50,000
Americas
Tenochtitlan 80,000
Texcoco 60,000
Utalan, Tzintzuntzan, Tlaxcala 40,000 – 60,000
Cuzco 45,000
Population in 1500 is not randomly distributed over the face of
the earth. But, there are hardly any places were there are no people,
except Antarctica.
Peoples develop/invent different ways of being in community. |
