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   From: keithnospam@demon.co.uk   
      
   The Starmaker wrote:   
   > deemsbill@aol.com wrote:   
   >>   
   >>    Since 1776? Well under one million.   
   >   
   > I don't understand...   
   > there was a hundred million people in China in 1776, why   
   > couldn't there be a hundred million people in America in 1776?   
   >   
      
   Because China was a long established Agrarian society   
   that had sophisticated farming techniques, had excellent   
   metallurgical skills and a stable well ordered society.   
      
   Pre Columbian North America was largely populated by   
   nomadic hunter gatherers who were living in the neolithic   
   had almost no domesticated animals.   
      
   Only in Central and South America were there the   
      
      
   > If all the China people were in America then, everyone would say there   
   > were only 1 million.   
   >   
   > The Starmaker   
      
   No they wouldn't. European explorers who visited China at   
   that time wrote about how powerful prosperous and well ordered   
   it was.   
      
   Keith   
      
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