Posted: December 28, 1999 at 12:24:41: by Tauron
I quote: "most of the population of our early world (and still today) were to the east and south, more the east in our world. South the Empire were millions of Africans, and east of the Empire were millions upon millions in Persia, India, Mongolia, China, etc. And north of the Empire were millions of Germanics."Not so. Looking at the area around the Roman Empire, there was not larger population densities. Up almost to the present day there was always a population gradient that ran "uphill" towards Europe. That is, the civilized Mediterranean always had more people than the surrounding areas. The success of the Germanic peoples, then the Arabs, then the Turks , was all the more surprising because it ran against the population gradient. The three great population zones of Eurasia have always been Europe, India, and China. It is interesting that the succesful invaders of Europe were never from the other population centers, but always from the low population zones. It is true that the historical (and pre-historical) invaders of Europe were from the east (but never the south), but large populations were not the reason why.
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