Posted on 04/18/2014 6:29:51 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
If the Greeks had low economic productivity, the Gauls were even lower. The largest academic estimate I've seen for pre-Roman Gaul is 2.5mm - and a lot of the estimates depend on the Romans not exaggerating the size of the armies they defeated.
Your point about Native America is well-taken: least successful "genocide" ever.
Hi RR. Oh this isn’t worth hassling over. What got me reacting is the kind of stuff like you see about when for instance the ecofreaks put out numbers about trees being destroyed or how the evil white man has killed off all the animals somewhere.
My wifes family is part Chickasaw from southern Oklahoma so I had looked up some info on them when they were pushed west back in the 1830 era. The gooberment had a fairly good idea of population numbers—the eastern tribes in particular-—especially since they were paying some monies to the tribes per person and you can gather a real sense of how lightly populated the American continent was north of central Mexico.
The Romans had a nifty saying: Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
Hey Rocky: I looked up the numbers re: American Indians and they were all over the place. Got me thoroughly confused.;-)
A pretty detailed “Injun” book I have says there were about 19,000 Cherokee, 14,000 Choctaw and 5,000 Chickasaw. I believe that in the whole of the continental US there were about a million Indians. (My speculation)
The amount of politicing, lawyering, contracts and nrgotiations during the removals is surprising.
I think the discovery of gold in the southern Appalachins had a lot to do with our ever benevolent gooberment wanting to bestow a new homeland on the earlier locals.
You know, there was some guy a century ago who claimed that there were 60 million bison; 10 million elk; and 40 million antelope pre-white man. Those numbers have been regurgitated endlessly even though they are clearly nonsense.
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