A look at the biggest cities over the ages, starting from 1 CE up to modern day... and beyond. Support me on patreon at: / atlaspro Music by www.bensound.com
imagine if you could visit cities like Babylon, Athens, Carthage, Tyros, Alexandria, Rome, Constantinople/Istanbul, Venice or Technotitlan in their prime...
Most of your data does not tally. Already Delhi has 10 million more population than Mumbai (D: 28 Mil, Mum 19Mil). It is growing much faster. There is no way Mumbai becomes larger than Delhi. But even by today's standards, Jakarta, and Delhi are nearing 30 + million. And there is no mention of Brazil.
God, growing up in the early 00s I felt like such a weirdo for playing games like Civilization 2 and caring about stuff like historical populations, demographics, and cities and movement of peoples etc. Thank god for RUclips and content like this! It's awesome, and also quite reassuring to know that plenty of other geography/history nerds exist. It's important!
Another excellent video! Some nit-picky things though. The capital of the Western Empire was Mediolanum before it got moved to Ravenna. Diocletian didn't make Constantinople the capital of the East, he chose Nicomedia; it was Constantine that moved the capital to Constantinople. And finally, at
Summary of this video: And then China moved its capital
Worst line for biggest city title holder - ''Then mongols invaded"
imagine if you could visit cities like Babylon, Athens, Carthage, Tyros, Alexandria, Rome, Constantinople/Istanbul, Venice or Technotitlan in their prime...
Oh god, cities with almost 100 mil population, that would be terrible to live in
Most of your data does not tally. Already Delhi has 10 million more population than Mumbai (D: 28 Mil, Mum 19Mil). It is growing much faster. There is no way Mumbai becomes larger than Delhi. But even by today's standards, Jakarta, and Delhi are nearing 30 + million. And there is no mention of Brazil.
The numbers on the future predictions gave me anxiety.
I'm surprised how long it took cities to go from 1 million to 2 million people.
I get so sad when the new largest city has less than the previous one.
Your channel is on the verge of verge of blowing up!
New megacities in the future are just mega-slums
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In civilization III the growth of the cities is limited to around one million until the industrial age. Now I start to fully appreciate that realism.
Damn, there are more people living in Beijing than there are in all of Australia ...
God, growing up in the early 00s I felt like such a weirdo for playing games like Civilization 2 and caring about stuff like historical populations, demographics, and cities and movement of peoples etc. Thank god for RUclips and content like this! It's awesome, and also quite reassuring to know that plenty of other geography/history nerds exist. It's important!
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Another excellent video! Some nit-picky things though. The capital of the Western Empire was Mediolanum before it got moved to Ravenna. Diocletian didn't make Constantinople the capital of the East, he chose Nicomedia; it was Constantine that moved the capital to Constantinople. And finally, at
"And China was engaged in a large amount of internal conflicts"
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How many times do you wanna move your capital?
That African growth seems insane. 88million people in one city. I stick to my 180.000 peeps.