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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Star Gazer" data-source="post: 43159" data-attributes="member: 2611">Combination HousingI dunno Tonguez... the %s seem to be spot on...I would assume that people living in a 'Manor' house would include the servants, since some of them 'do' live there.That's some very effective research there!  You're going to make some nicely accurate maps!As for the number of temples et. al., I would have to agree: Pick up a phone book and count how many churches you find in a particular city...dozens in even a smallish city like here in Fairfax, VA (population 50K).  People were, if anything, even more religious in the ancient past, I would expect that not having conveinent transportation (like cars) would further increase the number of 'temples' or local guild halls or whatever, since it is basic human nature not to want to walk any farther than you absolutely have to.Just from thinking about it for a few moments, I would expect those numbers to be even higher.The only problem I see with those numbers is the one about people living in 'combination' housing: Stores below, house above.  That seems to be unbelievably low, just take a look a London or Paris in the late middle ages or rennasaince or today:  Land costs have historically been so high in cities that it made very little sense to have a seperate house unless you were really rich.  In the countryside, it made even less sense to have seperate workplaces and homes, unless there was a specific reason for it: Tanner, Blacksmith, Miller, etc.As for the non-adult population, I wouldn't take it out of the population count, you're likely to end up with some very non-sensical percentages, like 38% of the population lives on farms and 80% of them are childeren.You have to remember that the idea that a child is not just a little adult is less than a hundred years old...10 years old for boys, for all intents and purposes WAS an adult, 12-14 for girls (there's a rather delicate, and obvious, physiological reason for this distinction though).  As for actual percentages, I would go to <a href="http://www.census.gov" target="_blank">www.census.gov</a> to see what population age demographics are for the poorest 10% of the US population are (simulates the condtitions of yesteryear quite nicely), consider anything above the age of 11 to be an adult and get a % to add on to the population from there...hope that made some sense..<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /> Good work though!My 2bits.</blockquote>

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