Answer:
Asia
Explanation:
The continent that has the largest population in the present will continue to be on the first place in the year of 2050 as well. That continent is Asia. By 2050, Asia is expected to have around 54% of the global population, thus over half of it. It has to be noticed though that the percentage in the global population of Asia is actually projected to decrease from the current 60%. Despite the decrease of those 6% in the total global population, Asia still remains far ahead of any other continent in 2050, and will for be for the foreseeable future.
During the Taiping Rebellion, the peasants rebelled. It was mostly a civil war which killed scores of people (twenty million people approximately). The movement was a millenarian movement (meaning it occurred because of religious ideology). The movement was led by Hong Xiuquan who claimed he was Jesus' younger brother. Hong Xiuquan wanted to instill social reforms such as collective property, equality for women and replacing Confucian, Buddhist, Daoist and Chinese folk religion with Christianity.
The rivers led to fertile soil and protection for people in the area so it was a prime place for settlement. Example; Egypt and the Nile.
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