populous nation but the existence of the

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circle only begs another question how
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did most of the world's population end
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up being inside of it well the circle is
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centered over a large part of asia and
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this is where the majority of the human
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population has been now for thousands of
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years at least as far back as 1000 bce
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the closest that any other continent has
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come so far in the past 3000 years to
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asia's population was europe at the turn
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of the 20th century and even then
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europe's total population was only 43
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percent of asia's total population fast
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forward 120 years to the present and
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that percentage has shrunk down to less
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than 17
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of asia's population today even if you
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go all the way back to 1700 india and
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china alone accounted for a little more
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