Practice question · True or false
Estimates of European population growth between 1000 and 1300 vary widely, and no figure for the period is secure.
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- Ask what a demographer of the eleventh century has to count with.
- There are no censuses; the estimates are built from hearth lists, rentals and tax records of uneven coverage.
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True
Why
True, and it is worth saying plainly. The sources are fragmentary and regionally uneven, and reconstructions differ by tens of millions. Historians are confident about the direction and the rough order of magnitude, something like a doubling, and not about any particular figure.
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