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You’re certainly misrepresenting something here. The population of the world doesn’t follow this chart which simply implies Rome became irrelevant in history a
by heavenlyblue 7y ago
You’re certainly misrepresenting something here.
The population of the world doesn’t follow this chart which simply implies Rome became irrelevant in history and people moved elsewhere.
- codeulike 7y agoI think that was their point
- heavenlyblue 7y agoTheir point was more akin to “all cities have been abandoned as civilisation ceased to exist”. If that was the case we would observe a definite decline in population numbers across the world. We don’t see that which either implies that the existence of civilisation wasn’t the prerequisite for our survival or that civilisation went elsewhere. I am betting on the second one. By the time Rome become irrelevant we observe the raise of Paris and London.
- philwelch 7y agoOr the population dispersed into rural areas and returned to lives of subsistence farming.
- philwelch 7y agoSure, but where? There wasn’t an equivalent of old Rome anywhere west of Constantinople.