Re: Population Ancient Israel
- From: Hayabusa <peregrine@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 23:59:08 +0100
On 1 Feb 2006 14:38:26 -0800, martin.winer@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
In another religious group, we have a collection of people suggesting
that there were 21 million people living in Israel in the year 1000BCE.
Yes yes, of course it's ridiculous, however I'd like as much quotable
(hopefully online) evidence that this is completely ridiculous.
I currently only have an estimate of 300,000 people during the davidic
rule. That's based on the size of Jerusalem and other cities.
Any other quoteable proof? Thanks...MCW
According to the Atlas of World Population history, by Colin McEvedy
and Richard Jones (Penguin Reference, 1978), ISBN 0-14-051076-1,
the world population in 1000 BCE was 50 million people. Either half of
them lived in Israel, or their numbers are wrong.
For BCE 2000, Egypt is quoted as having 2 million; Mesopotamia some 1
million; the British Isles (Great Britain and Ireland) perhaps 55,000.
fkoe
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