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the head count so old that emperors used it to find more people to tax
means An official count of a population, usually gathering details like age, household, and occupation alongside the raw number of people.
from From Latin census, from censere, 'to assess, estimate, or appraise.' In Rome the censor was the official who tallied citizens and their property — partly to know the people, mostly to know what could be taxed and who could be drafted. The word kept that double life of counting and judging all the way into English.
- ancient roots
- Romans counted citizens over 2,000 years ago
- birth detail
- Jesus's nativity hinges on a Roman census trip
- u.s. mandate
- Constitution requires one every ten years
- job engine
- hires hundreds of thousands of temporary workers
- power shifter
- redraws political maps and reallocates billions
for instance
domesday book 1086 — william the conqueror's census of england recording land, livestock, and value