We know that in about 1445 BC 600,000 Israeli adult people exited Egypt. They must have been between 5 and 20 percent of the population (or between 8 and 17 percent speculatively speaking); we know this because they were considered to be important socio-economically to Egypt. The population of the world was probably 8 to 13 times that or thereabouts. Also see Genesis chapter 11 which takes us from about 4990 BC to about 2900 BC near the end of Peleg's era, and to nearly 2,000 BC.
Also 2,700 was probably about the height of the pyramid age, what was the population of Egypt. Formula for population growth (though you don't need it to answer the main questions) is Population = initial population time the series product of (1 + rate of growth) to the power time: P = A( 1 + r)^t
show your reasoning.
2006-07-03
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