Mexico’s pre-conquest population exceeded twenty-five million

Evidence

Central Mexico alone supported some thirty million people. At the same time, the population of Europe as far east as the Ural Mountains was around fifty million. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 46 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Mexico’s native population collapsed from 25 million to about one million in nine decades — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 628; Precolonial Mexico had thirty million people — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 46

Related

• Precolonial Mexico had thirty million people (similarity 0.96)
• Hispaniola’s indigenous population collapsed from 750,000 to 29,000 within two decades (similarity 0.86)
• Mexico’s native population topped 25 million at the start of the 1500s (similarity 0.86)
• Mexico’s native population collapsed from 25 million to about one million in nine decades (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Precolonial Mexico had thirty million people #corroborates (0.80) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 46