It is estimated that in the 11th century Ashkenazi Jews composed only three percent of the world's Jewish population, while at their peak in 1931 they accounted for 92 percent of the world's Jews. Immediately prior to the Holocaust, the number of Jews in the world stood at approximately 16.7 million. Statistical figures vary for the contemporary demography of Ashkenazi Jews, oscillating between 10 million and 11.2 million. Sergio DellaPergola in a rough calculation of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews, implies that Ashkenazi make up less than 74% of Jews worldwide. Other estimates place Ashkenazi Jews as making up about 75% of Jews worldwide.

In the Yoma tractate of the Babylonian Talmud the name Gomer is rendered as Germania, which elsewhere in rabbinical literature was identified with Germanikia in northwestern Syria, but later became associated with Germania. Ashkenaz is linked to Scandza/Scanzia, viewed as the cradle of Germanic tribes, as early as a 6th-century gloss to the Historia Ecclesiastica of Eusebius. In the 10th-century History of Armenia of Yovhannes Drasxanakertc'i (1.15) Ashkenaz was associated with Armenia, as it was occasionally in Jewish usage, where its denotation extended at times to Adiabene, Khazaria, Crimea and areas to the east. His contemporary Saadia Gaon identified Ashkenaz with the Saquliba or Slavic territories, and such usage covered also the lands of tribes neighboring the Slavs, and Eastern and Central Europe. In modern times, Samuel Krauss identified the Biblical "Ashkenaz" with Khazaria.

What are the answers to this following set of questions:

1. What is Ashkenaz linked to?
2. What was it seen as the cradle of?
3. How early in time?
4. When was it associated with Armenia?
5. Who identified it with Khazaria?
6. What percentage did Ashkenazi Jews make up of the world's Jewish population in the 11th century?
7. By 1931, were there more of them or fewer of them?
8. What percentage did they make up?
9. How many were there before the Holocaust>
10. And what about today>
1. Scandza/Scanzia
2. the cradle of Germanic tribes,
3. 6th cnetury
4. 10th century
5. Yovhannes Drasxanakertc'i
6. 3 percent
7. more
8. 92 percent
9. 16.7 million
10. 10 to 11.2 million