To: TigerLikesRooster
Okay, so I understated things a bit...
I can’t imagine how a nation survives losing 70% of its population.
15 posted on
12/07/2010 7:26:11 AM PST by
Little Ray
(The Gods of the Copybook Heading, with terror and slaughter return!)
To: Little Ray
Look at it from the point of view of the 30% who remain living. Life goes on. In fact, I can imagine lots of places in the US that would be a lot more pleasant with 70% less population. DC is one. LA and NY are others.
To: Little Ray
The worst of such episodes is the population dropping from 60 million(end of Later Han Era) to 8 million(somewhere near the end of Three Kingdom Period.) Jin Dynasty unified China for a short period, before it was destroyed by civil war(Eight Princes Rebellion.)
20 posted on
12/07/2010 7:44:56 AM PST by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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