The 45 million estimate for Mao is dwarfed by the Islamic invasion of India which reduced their population from 600 to 200 million over eight centuries, and is considered the greatest genocide in history.
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Muslims slaughtered maybe hundreds of millions of Skkhs and Hindus.
Anyone who thinks they won’t do the same to the Americas is mentally deficient.
“The 45 million estimate for Mao is dwarfed by the Islamic invasion of India which reduced their population from 600 to 200 million over eight centuries, and is considered the greatest genocide in history.”
I read an estimate that the Mongols, all totaled, killed between 20-25% of all the people alive at the time. I presume that’s just the lands that they occupied.
I haven’t seen estimates for the Bronze age collapse, but the Mongol invasion and the Bronze age depopulation would need to be in percentages because the population of the Earth was so comparatively low at those times. If I recall, the population didn’t cross one billion until the twentieth century.