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Re:Why Genghis Khan’s tomb can’t be found by nshm on Monday August 14, 2017 @08:06PM (#15014208)
Modern history gives significantly lower estimates for those numbers, it was likely less than 2 million people in France. At the same time the Mongol's army was probably about 20k people, not 500k as claimed.
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Re:Why Genghis Khan’s tomb can’t be found by novembermike on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @12:50PM (#15019889)
Are you sure you aren't thinking of post plague Europe? I just double checked wikipedia and it basically says between 13-20 million people in France depending on what you consider to be "France" (modern borders are closer to 20 million).
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