Globale Bevölkerungsveränderung zwischen 1500 und 1600 n. Chr
Von vladgrinch
Globale Bevölkerungsveränderung zwischen 1500 und 1600 n. Chr
Von vladgrinch
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Causes for the dramatic population fall in North America (and the Americas in general):
Primary cause: epidemic diseases (smallpox, measles, influenza, bubonic plague, etc) brought from the Old World. It is estimated that smallpox alone killed tens of millions of people in North America.
Other causes: mass killings, warfare, enslavement, forced labor, etc.
Most recent estimates for US and Canada are around 3-4 million people prior to contact with Europeans. Since there was very little contact prior to 1600 in the US/Canada I would assume most of this decline was in present-day Mexico.
Another one of my maps, here’s estimated data for all countries https://brilliantmaps.com/pop-change-1500-1600/
That’s a wild map of „continents“ for the 1500-1600 time period.
The borders don’t represent continents or the countries of the time
A couple months ago my brother acknowledged that the pilgrims killed most natives with diseases, yet 5 minutes later said how it was a good thing that we came because they were killing each other before we came along lol.
Ow wow… that’s bad.
What’s interesting is that, despite experiencing a massive population decline in the 16th century, America’s population, which was similar to Europe’s before the decline, now exceeds Europe’s.
And while the population gap between Europe and Asia was only three to four times in 1500 and 1600, it’s now close to seven times. How can this be?
Did the Australian Aborigines get decimated by disease as well, or did they have immunity?