In general, Greek states did not have taxes payable by all inhabitants that would have required the maintenance of detailed records for financial purposes, and censuses of citizens were rare in the ancient Greek world. It is certain, however, that both mortality and fertility in ancient Greece ...
Population control is the practice of curtailing population increase, usually by reducing the birth rate. Surviving records from Ancient Greece document the first known examples of population control. These include the colonization movement, which saw Greek outposts being built across the Mediterranean an...
As of 2016, thepopulation of Chinawas 1.38 billion people. That phenomenal number is matched by enormous early population figures. Censuses were taken as a rule by ancient rulers beginning in the Zhou Dynasty, but what the rulers were counting is somewhat in doubt. Some censuses refer to the ...
The demography of ancient Greece has always been a hard subject to study. Although ancient sources provide no reliable statistical data on childbirth, mortality, life expectancy, and other related metrics, we do know quite a bit about practices and issues that affected population levels. Ancient Gr...
(De republica, II, vi) maintained, indeed, that in a communistic society marriage and the birth of children ought to be regulated and restricted by law, lest the means of support should be insufficient for all the citizens; and in some of the city-states of ancient Greece, abortion, ...
MADRID. TREASURES OF THE GREAT CITY Contemplating the majestic buildings of Madrid, it is hard to imagine that once a miniature village stood on the site of this city. The village was located near the walls of the Madzhirit fortress and gradually expanded, slowly but surely turning into a ...
The History of Linguistics in Europe From Plato to 1600 This book examines the history of western linguistics over a 2,000-year timespan, from its origins in ancient Greece up to the crucial moments of change in... V Law - Cambridge University Press, 被引量: 22发表: 2015年 ...
Mexico’s percentage of ninis is above the average for all 34 OECD member countries, and is the fifth highest among OECD members, after Turkey (31.3%), Greece (28.5 %), Spain (26.8 %) and Italy (26.1 %). Very few of Mexico’s 7.3 million ninis (only 3.8%) are technically “unemp...
Climates of hunger : mankind and the world's changing weather CHAPTER I A Drought in Ancient Greece CUMATESOF HUNGER are cbanged climates, climates that no longer support the crops and herds, berries, fruits, and game... RA Bryson,TJ Murray - University of Wisconsin Press 被引量: 115发表...
Here we genotype 2,296 samples from two isolated Greek populations, the Pomak villages (HELIC-Pomak) in the North of Greece and the Mylopotamos villages (HELIC-MANOLIS) in Crete. We compare their genomic characteristics to the general Greek population and establish them as genetic isolates. In...