LARGEST CITIES IN THE WORLD | 2800 BC - 2100 AD

Largest Cities in the World | 2800 BC - 2100 AD

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[greenearth]

After the fall of Baghdad it took over 700 years for the largest city to breach 1 million. And to see Rome reaching around 1, 5 million over 2000 years ago is truly remarkable

[Herr_Vava]

It's crazy how Istanbul appeared in the top 20 in 60 AD and disappeared in 1900... For 1840 years it remained in the top 20 cities in the world, truly remarkable!

[SomeoneCommenting]

Wow, amazing that Teotihuacan in Mexico and Caracol in Belize at one moment were the most populous places in the world. The fall of Rome was really disastrous, same as Baghdad.

[ابوعقاب-فك]

كانت سوريا والعراق مهد الحضارة البشرية لألاف السنين ومركز العالم حيث كانت مدننا عواصم الامبراطوريات الساميه والفارسيه والاغريقيه والعربيه
ولاكن اندثر كل شيء الى الأبد بعد سقوط بغداد وغزو المغول
وايضا الاديان الابراهيميه الثلاث نشئت فيها ✡️☪️☦️
وايضا الابجديات الاتينية والسيريليه والعربيه انبثقت من ابجديات سوريا القديمة وتحديدا الفينيقيه والاراميه
لا يسعني الا ان أقول
تحياتي الى جميع من شاهد هذا الفيديو
من تل براك التي كانت في يوم من الايام اكبر
مدن العالم واعرقها واقدمها
الدعاء لبلاد اجدادكم ومنبع ثقافاتكم
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[Marc-gjvx]

Its crazy that Rome is the first to reach 1M in the 300s, and then it took almost 1500 years and an industrial revolution to make it more common to have 1M+ cities.

[Kaiserbill]

Amazing how Britain, a small island off mainland Europe, had 4 of the largest cities in the world including the largest, during the 19th century. The industrial revolution drew people to cities like moths to a light bulb.

[Ballamizan]

The fact that once Belize had the largest city in the world is unbelieveable

[كرارالسومري-وض]

بكل فخر وشموخ عراقي سومري اكدي بابلي اشوري عربي سرياني
انا الجميل السومري البابلي كانت يدي قيثارة العشاقي
ارض النبي ادم ونوح وشيث ابراهيم وهود وصالح وايوب ودانيال وحزقيال وارض الانبياء والعظماء والملوك والامبراطوريات والتاريخ

[somethingdiscreet]

It's interesting to see that it was almost impossible to maintain a city of over a million people before modern transport systems in the 1800s. Infrastructure and especially goods transport are the unsung heroes allowing even modestly sized modern cities of 1-5 million people to exist at all.

[emmanuelcuignet]

In the past, City sizes were mostly linked to economic growth and might. Now and in the future it is purely linked to insane population growth.

[princeofparadise]

Iraq, Egypt, Syria, China, India and Greece all have a wonderful and unique history. Love for this country
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[dashamanstevo]

I just could not imagine living in a city of 88 million people. Australia has a population of 26 million, my city 2.1 million. These numbers blow my mind.

[janschezant]

Knowing Japan is a small country able to keep up and even put 3 cities on the chart is purely amazing!

[stoopidpaki]

Proud that my country Pakistan at dawn of history had two cities - Harappa and Mohenjo Daro. Much respect to Syria, Iraq and Egypt as well. PK🇵🇰 🇵🇰 🇵🇰 🇵🇰 🇵🇰 🇵🇰 🇵🇰 🇵🇰 🇵🇰 🇵🇰 🇵🇰 🇵🇰

[pbasswil]

Imagine if we actually _knew_ the populations of all these cities, consistently and accurately, from 2800BC to past our own era?? I salute the estimators & guessers & interpolators who put this together.

[Ammar-csdq]

From 2500 BC to 1759 AD there was at least one city in Iraq in TOP 20..

That means 4, 259 consecutive years being a great country It's sad to forget this because of the last 50 bad years in the modern century

[SquidProQuo]

*1) In 1519 the Mexica capital Tenochtitlan was one of the largest cities in the world ranging anywhere from 150, 000 to 300, 000 inhabitants. The Spanish record that it was 4 times larger than Seville and comparable to Constantinople. I don't understand why it never even appears in this video until it became the Mexican capital.*
*2) Kano suffered famines all throughout the 1800s (at least 10 separate famine years are documented) and thusly never had a population as large as claimed in this video. In fact the highest estimate I've ever found anywhere put it at 200, 000 and that was the absolute highest. Making it the second largest city in the world after London with a population more than 15 X the highest estimate is very suspect here.*
*3) Luanda never even reached 1 million in population until the 1980s so to see it here larger than Chicago (once the world's fastest growing city) in the early 1900s makes no sense whatsoever.*

[ZakeD]

This video isn't even accurate. One that sticks out like a sore thumb in the early 1900s is Luanda, Angola. It's population is listed as being larger than the population of the entire colony was! It's listed at 5.2 million in 1940, when in reality it had 60, 000 people. Kano, Nigeria is also inexplicably shown as one of the largest cities throughout most of the 20th century.

With mistakes that glaring it's hard to take this video seriously.

[vassiliskyriakou]

Wow i cant believe that my small country Cyprus, once had one of the biggest cities in the world before Christ. Small country with a huge ancient history

[akrem]

🇪🇬🇮🇶🇸🇾 History of humanity in one color 👏👏👏