When agriculture began about 12,000 to 8,000 years ago, roughly how large was world population?
AAbout 800 million
BAbout 80 thousand
CAbout 8 million
DAbout 8 billion
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. About 8 million
1. Early population grew very slowly.
2. After farming began it was roughly 8 million.
3. It was under 300 million in the first century AD.
_Source: NCERT Class 12 Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 2, The World Population._
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