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*Approx. 10 | *Approx. 10 billion (pre-Battle of Earth)<ref name="ENC">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]''', ''page 282''</ref><ref name="populateTwit">[https://twitter.com/Mr_Admirals/status/429062324737953792 '''Twitter''': ''@HaloWaypoint Hey, what was the population of Earth prior to November 2552?'']</ref> | ||
*Approx. 200 | *Approx. 200 million (Post-Battle of Earth, as of [[2552#November|Nov. 2552]])<ref name="VIS">'''[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page 54''</ref><ref ="BEST">'''[[Bestiarum|Halo 3 Bestiarum]]'''</ref> | ||
*Several | *Several billion (late 2553)<ref name="populateTwit"/> | ||
|government=[[Unified Earth Government]] | |government=[[Unified Earth Government]] | ||
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'''Earth''', known in the [[Forerunner]] era as "'''Erde-Tyrene'''"<ref name="Cryptum">'''[[Halo: Cryptum]]'''</ref> (pronounced ''"Er-da-ty-reen"'')<ref>'''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGR1V7IRLXs Halo: Rebirth]'''</ref> or "'''Erda'''",<ref name="Primordium">'''[[Halo: Primordium]]''', ''page 238''</ref> is the third planet and one of four terrestrial worlds of the [[Sol system]]. It is the homeworld of the [[human]] species, the current capital world of the [[Unified Earth Government]], and home to [[HIGHCOM Facility Bravo-6|the headquarters]] of the [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]]. | '''Earth''', known in the [[Forerunner]] era as "'''Erde-Tyrene'''"<ref name="Cryptum">'''[[Halo: Cryptum]]'''</ref> (pronounced ''"Er-da-ty-reen"'')<ref>'''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGR1V7IRLXs Halo: Rebirth]'''</ref> or "'''Erda'''",<ref name="Primordium">'''[[Halo: Primordium]]''', ''page 238''</ref> is the third planet and one of four terrestrial worlds of the [[Sol system]]. It is the homeworld of the [[human]] species, the current capital world of the [[Unified Earth Government]], and home to [[HIGHCOM Facility Bravo-6|the headquarters]] of the [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]]. | ||
With a population of ten | With a population of ten billion, Earth was the most populated planet in UEG territory prior to the Covenant invasion. Despite being dramatically reduced during the [[Battle of Earth|Covenant attack]] in 2552 due to both casualties inflicted by the Covenant and a major evacuation effort, the population had again risen to several billion by the end of the year [[2553]].<ref name="populateTwit"/> | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
[[File:Cycle response.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Wikipedia:Pangaea|Pangaea]], the super-continent 250 | [[File:Cycle response.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Wikipedia:Pangaea|Pangaea]], the super-continent 250 million years ago that was the amalgamation of all current present-day [[:category:Continents|continents]].]] | ||
===Prehistory=== | ===Prehistory=== | ||
{{Main|Prehistoric human civilization|Erde-Tyrene civilization}} | {{Main|Prehistoric human civilization|Erde-Tyrene civilization}} | ||
The Earth first formed about 4.6 | The Earth first formed about 4.6 billion years ago, and gave rise to the first single-celled organisms about 3.9 billion years ago. About 200,000 years ago, the ancestors of modern humans, ''Homo sapiens'', evolved in [[Africa]]. Indigenous to Eastern Africa, they gradually spread across the entire planet. Eventually, the humans, originally consisting of groups of hunter-gatherers, began to develop into [[Wikipedia:civilization|civilizations]]. | ||
Human civilizations gradually became more and more complex, and eventually, humanity discovered spaceflight and spread across the [[Orion Arm]] of the [[Milky Way|Milky Way Galaxy]]. Early on, humanity underwent several periods of technological and social regression, losing most of their records in the process. Having spread to many other worlds, it was not until thousands of years later that they rediscovered Earth to be their planet of origin. Earth was one of the first human worlds to fall to the Forerunners in the [[human-Forerunner wars]].<ref name="Primordium"/> After being defeated by the Forerunner civilization, the humans were exiled back to Earth, with their civilization dismantled, populations splintered amongst the many human species and their culture degrading back to a primitive state for millennia.<ref name="Cryptum"/> | Human civilizations gradually became more and more complex, and eventually, humanity discovered spaceflight and spread across the [[Orion Arm]] of the [[Milky Way|Milky Way Galaxy]]. Early on, humanity underwent several periods of technological and social regression, losing most of their records in the process. Having spread to many other worlds, it was not until thousands of years later that they rediscovered Earth to be their planet of origin. Earth was one of the first human worlds to fall to the Forerunners in the [[human-Forerunner wars]].<ref name="Primordium"/> After being defeated by the Forerunner civilization, the humans were exiled back to Earth, with their civilization dismantled, populations splintered amongst the many human species and their culture degrading back to a primitive state for millennia.<ref name="Cryptum"/> | ||