January 29, 2018Alexander the Great, Middle Ages, Roman Empire, Viking Era Most of the improvement in life expectancy in the last 10,000 years has taken place in the last 100 years. Johan Norberg describes the tremendous progress in the last several hundred years in so many areas: life expectancy, health, sanitation, liberty, education, […]
January 20, 2018January 20, 2018Middle Ages, Roman Empire, Viking Era Growth in world population Our World in Data, the web site of Max Roser, visualizes data in amazing ways. Check out this graph of world population: […]
June 18, 2017January 20, 2018Viking Era Population in Scandinavia during Viking Age In The Vikings course from The Great Courses, Prof. Kenneth Harl guesses the population in the Scandinavian areas (which would become Norway, […]