Asia's population

>>2279773
Rice

>>2279957
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>>2279773
Good climate for growing food and rice, which is a ridiculously nutritious and easy-to-grow crop.

>>2279773
Asia is bigger

>>2280274
I wlasy thought the nutrients value of rice is low.
Don they even add all sorts of nutricious stuff by spreading powder on rice otherwise its almost uselss?

>>2281119
They have lots of other good crops and grains. How else is noodles a thing?

>>2281119
Rice is missing a lot of essential vitamins and minerals, but excellent caloric value for a crop.

This means that while you can't live a good life, it's very easy to sustain a human being in the first place on rice. This is why Asians were all so short until recently. If you eat nothing but rice, you'll grow to be like 5 feet tall.

>>2279773
Because LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT LANDMASS MY MAN GODDAMN

What kind of dickass question is this

>>2279773
...it is big.

>>2281459
Judging from European armor, all Euros were pretty small themselves in the premodern days.

>>2281474
Generally, yes. Height is basically proportionate to the amount of protein in a people's diet, almost linearly. Before modern farming techniques, meat was a rare treat.

America was the first country where beef was a staple food, from the combination of huge depopulated areas, and railroads existing in a temperate climate for the first time.

>>2281481
If I recall correctly Amerigans used to hold the world's tallest belt back in the first half of the 19th cent.

>>2281481
Are you saying romans had less protein to go around even though they sucked each other off 24/7?

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How do you even eat rice everyday day after day?

Anyone who has had the displeasure of eating the same food over and over again knows what I'm talking about.

>>2281726
Because its that or die.

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>>2279773
Two words, OP
Himalayan Glacier

The run off water from this glacier provides for the bulk of the human population.

>>2281726
They would have been miserable and wretched by our standards

>>2281472
This would be a good point except literally half of that landmass is fucking empty and most of the population is located in coastal China and south Asia.

>>2279773

More fertile soil, historically more advanced agricultural science and on a biological scale Asian bodies are more capable of enduring hard-labor than Caucasoid bodies.

>>2281759

Think again.

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>>2281840

CRAZY RICE FARMS
Allowed by large rivers, irrigation and a monsoon climate.

>>2281726
They weren't retards and so probably put some herbs and sauce in their meals. Also they fished, ate dogs and owned cattle, so they occasionally had meat and thus protein.

>>2281459
thats a dam lie im 6 foot

>>2281843

Lack of population density does no equal lack of population. It means that people are more spread out instead of clustered together. For example Iran is the 17th most populous country in the world yet if you judge it by that map alone you'd think that barely anyone lives there.

>>2279773
I'm assuming this is a ruse, but if it isn't:

Asia had a much bigger population than Europe pre-Black Death

Asia was hit about as badly/harder by the Black Death than Europe (can't remember which)

Industrialisation is, simplistically, what caused the boom in European population, and what caused the subsequent boom in Asian population

The answer? Dunno, probably the fact it's ten million square kilometres bigger than the West (45mil to Europe + NAmerica's 35mil) and has better farmland/weather.
>>2281843
Yeah and those population dense areas are fucking massive all by themselves.

>>2282643
Still, Siberia is fucking empty, Russian far east is empty, Mongolia is empty, Arabian peninsula is empty, so is central Asia, the Himalayas, the Tibetan plateau, nobody ficking lives there. All the population is concentrated in China, Japan, ex-British India snd Indonesia.

>>2282654
>Arabian Peninsula
>Cental Asia
>empty
do you have eyes to look at your own pic?

>>2279773
Asia has the most fauna on planet earth its not surprising humans have the highest numbers where meat can be found.

>>2282662
Saudi Arabia is 12th in area and 41st in population so yeah pretty darn empty

>>2281871
>I don't know where Iran is
According to that map half of Iran is red...

>>2282671
Saudi Arabia is not the Arabian peninsula

It's like 3 times the size of Europe?

>>2281726
How do you eat wheat everyday? With a thousand different methods of cooking that's how.

>>2281840
>on a biological scale Asian bodies are more capable of enduring hard-labor than Caucasoid bodies.
Wut. No. A body simple adapts the lifestyle it has threw childhood and adolescence. Europeans can be short, hardy and tough if raised the same.

>>2282654
As opposed to the megacities of Canada, central USA, half of eastern Europe and all of Scandinavia?

Wheat can be harvested once every three years on one field. Rice can be harvested two to three times per year on the same field in warmer climates. Rice provides the highest yield per area per harvest. Rice is extremely labor intensive but also sustains that labor.

>>2281840
>on a biological scale Asian bodies are more capable of enduring hard-labor than Caucasoid bodies.
There is practically no genetic difference between "races" that go beyond phenotypes.

>>2282673

Nigger are you blind?