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To: Restorer
According to Wikipedia only about 100 M was the number of people under their control at the height of their Empire.

Yes, they killed a lot, it took half of the Euroasian land mass to even have 100 million. That's a lot of people.

The 5 million for Central Asia is probably about right, but keep in mind, for some reason, they really didn't like Muslims much. They were much more "civilized" around Christians and Buddhists.

104 posted on 05/26/2005 1:54:19 PM PDT by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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To: Ditto

After some additional research, you appear to be more or less correct. The total number is probably closer to 50M than 100M.

Still a major accomplishment, given the population they had to work with and the technology available.


105 posted on 05/26/2005 1:56:30 PM PDT by Restorer
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