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Twentieth Century Atlas - Historical Body Count p.2 (3456 words) |
 | Carl Haub, some 1138 million prehistoric humans were born between 50,000 and 8,000 BCE. |
| Assuming an average prehistoric population of 3 million, this indicates 4500 KIA each year worldwide, or 189 million for all the years between 50,000 and 8,000 BCE. |
| For later history, let's assume that from 8000 BCE to 1500 CE, the world's primitive population stayed about the same -- at 5 million. |
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Insurance - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article (4935 words) |
| Early methods of transferring or distributing risk were practiced by Babylonian traders as long ago as the 2nd millennium BCE. |
| Towards the end of the seventeeth century, the growing importance of London as a centre for trade led to rising demand for marine insurance. |
| In the late 1680s, Mr Edward Lloyd opened a coffee house which became a popular haunt of ship owners, merchants and ships’ captains, and thereby a reliable source of the latest shipping news. |
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