Fried_out_Kombi[meme] You can tell a lot about a society by how they allocate space
SaganasticThey used to be. And then people decided carriages were more convenient than walking. And then people decided cars were more convenient than carriages.
I wonder, were population centers large enough to be considered “busy” before domesticated horses and carriages were around?
At the peak of the Roman empire, the city of Rome had at least one million inhabitants, a total not equaled again in Europe until the 19th century.
That number is usually considered to be way too high fwiw. At 1,000,000, it would have a population density of over 72,000 per square kilometer. Manila is the densest city in the world today at about 43,000 per square kilometer.
It’s even less likely when you consider they didn’t have any sort of high rises and a third of the city was dedicated to parks and public buildings.