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  2. List of largest cities throughout history - Wikipedia

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    This article lists the largest human settlements in the world (by population) over time, as estimated by historians, from 7000 BC when the largest human settlement was a proto-city in the ancient Near East with a population of about 1,000–2,000 people, to the year 2000 when the largest human settlement was Tokyo with 26 million. Rome, Chang ...

  3. Demography of the Roman Empire - Wikipedia

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    Life expectancy at birth in the Roman Empire is estimated at about 22–33 years. [9] [notes 1] For the two-thirds to three-quarters of the population surviving the first year of life, [10] life expectancy at age 1 is estimated at around 34–41 remaining years (i.e. expected to live to age 35–42), while for the 55–65% surviving to age 5, life expectancy was around 40–45. [11]

  4. List of largest European cities in history - Wikipedia

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    These tables give an idea of estimated population at various dates from the earliest times to ... 1000 700 600 500 – 400 300 200 ... Rome: 1,000,000 – 1,650,000 ...

  5. Rome - Wikipedia

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    The current [when?] birth rate of Rome is 9.10 births per 1,000 inhabitants compared to the Italian average of 9.45 births. [citation needed] The urban area of Rome extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of around 3.9 million. [102] Between 3.2 and 4.2 million people live in the Rome metropolitan area. [103] [104] [105 ...

  6. List of countries by population in 1000 - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of countries by population in 1000. The bulk of these numbers are sourced from Alexander V. Avakov's Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics , Volume 1, pages 12 to 14, which cover population figures from the year 1000 divided into modern borders.

  7. Roman Empire - Wikipedia

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    Recent demographic studies have argued for a population peak from 70 million to more than 100 million. [68] Each of the three largest cities in the Empire—Rome, Alexandria, and Antioch—was almost twice the size of any European city at the beginning of the 17th century. [69] As the historian Christopher Kelly described it:

  8. History of Rome - Wikipedia

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    A new rising trend in population continued until the mid-1980s, when the commune had more than 2.8 million residents; after that, population started to slowly decline as more residents moved to nearby suburbs. The Rome metropolitan area has about 4.4 million inhabitants as of 2015.

  9. List of largest empires - Wikipedia

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    Possible ways of measuring size include area, population, economy, and power. ... Million km 2 Million sq mi ... 1000 [9] First Portuguese Empire: 0.6 [9] 0.23