Questions tagged [demography]
For questions about characteristics of a population.
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What are the approximate percentages of the 3 classes of population in the city of Rome around the time of Octavian?
I wonder what's the best recent scholarly estimate of the percentages of each of the 3 main social classes of population in the city of Rome around the time of Octavian:
Patricians
Plebeians
Slaves
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What was Russia's population history?
I want to ask a question about the history of Russia's population size. I have been watching Gozhda's YouTube channel and it seems to show the Russian population as originally very tiny in ancient ...
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During the time of the German Empire, were Polish or Jewish people permitted to join the Social Democratic Party?
According to Wikipedia, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) of Germany was founded in 1890. The German empire was founded in 1871:
Inside of this territory, there were many people who were ethnically ...
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Did the Crisis of the late Middle Ages cause a notable expansion of wilderness in Europe?
There was a lot of wild forest in the early Middle Ages, around 75% in the 9th century according to Wikipedia, much of which was cleared during the population boom in the High Middle Ages. I also read ...
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Why were there more Catholics in Lancashire than other parts of England around the time of the Jacobite rebellions?
The abstract of this article begins "Historians are generally agreed that Lancashire was the most Catholic and the most Jacobite county in England at the time of the 1715 rebellion".
The ...
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When and how did the Han ethnic group become by far the biggest ethnic group in China?
China is a very ethnic homogenous country, one ethnic group, the Han make up 92 % of China's population.
Huaxia refers to a confederation of tribes—living along the Yellow
River—who were the ...
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How common were ethnically mixed villages in pre-WWII Czechoslovakia?
I was trying to find out whether the treaties that determined the post-war borders of Czechoslovakia were partly motivated as a punishment for the history of oppression by the German and Hungarian ...
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When did Turkic languages emerge in Central Asia? [closed]
Consider the countries Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. They speak Turkic languages (alongside some Russian). It was primarily Iranic people (Scythians and Persians) who lived in ...
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Why do Eastern European countries have the greatest female-to-male ratio?
I'm taking a Data Analysis class where we go over some data samples. Today we went over the world population data from 1950 to 2015.
We noticed that the proportion of females to males was the highest ...
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What were the demographics of the ancient Crete (any population estimates from 500BCE to 1BCE will do)?
I am looking for any estimates on the population of ancient Crete in the time period 500BCE to 1BCE.
I have searched for such estimates on google but I haven't found anything relevant.
(Note: The ...
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What were the demographics of the ancient Greek colonies of Cyprus (any population estimates from 500BCE to 1BCE will do)?
Are there any estimates on the ancient populations of Cyprus from 500BCE to 1BCE.
What were the demographics of the ancient Greek colonies of Cyprus (any population estimates from 500BCE to 1BCE will ...
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How many 'pubs' (alehouses, inns and taverns) were there in England in 1577?
I came across an interesting bit of demographic information while listening to a lecture:
From early times people had rented out space in their houses for
travellers, but by the thirteenth century ...
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Why is there a cutoff in population density running through the middle of the US? [duplicate]
There is this interesting line cutting across the US in terms of population density. It cuts through Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. East is higher population density excluding some small ...
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Why are many African-Americans in Mississippi concentrated in the northwestern area?
I was looking at a 2016 election map of Mississippi. I saw a that most of it was red, but the western part looked very blue. I looked up one of those counties, and not surprisingly for an American ...
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Is there a population density map of pre-Columbian South America?
I have found such maps for North America, e.g. this one:
But never for the southern continent. The goal is a broad overview. How many Lokono were there, compared to the Mapuche (and the Cree for that ...
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