Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "Canada update" video.
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I think John mixed up his numbers, there weren't even 300,000,000 in Europe 1900. The total world population was estimated to be 1.6 billion in 1900 and I am guessing at least half would have been China and South Asia. I am in Australia and apparently estimates of indigenous population before European arrival vary from 300,000 to 1,000,000. In Australia's case I go for the former mainly because no staple food, no corn, wheat, potato, rice or even coconut, there were things to eat but just consider only 1 commercial crop has originated from an Australian plant , the Macadamia. It's extremely hard to live without modern technology and no high value staple food. Disease did devastate the Americas and Oceania which didn't have the Eurasian diseases.
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