end of Year Geography Quiz, Question 37:

[gh]

37. What was the world's first city to reach a population of 1 million?

[Daisy]

Re: end of Year Geography Quiz, Question 37:

Shanghai?

[guru]

London or Rome. Can't decide which I'd go with.

[gm]

It saddam's me to admit that I remember this from history in middle school, but it was Baghdad!

I RAQ!

Or not.

[Marlow]

London or Rome. Can't decide which I'd go with.

I like both of those. I can't believe ancient Rome got that big, and I do know London was the first to a million in 'modern times'.

But I bet the answer is a Chinese city!

[Daisy]

London or Rome. Can't decide which I'd go with.

Sounds like a better choice. i just looked at the wiki page for Shanghai and it was considered a village as late as 800 AD

[Pego]

London is my guess.

[DrJay]

London for me, too.

[Marlow]

I haven't found the answer, but I have found corroboration for my ancient Rome skepticism, seems it topped out short by 100K. London's looker gooder! There is an outside chance that there was some Mid-Eastern cosmopolis - Constantinople, Damascus, Baghdad, Cairo.

[dukehjsteve]

ditto London... my choice before I saw what anyone else said.

[DrJay]

I haven't found the answer, but I have found corroboration for my ancient Rome skepticism, seems it topped out short by 100K. London's looker gooder! There is an outside chance that there was some Mid-Eastern cosmopolis - Constantinople, Damascus, Baghdad, Cairo.

Yeah, and the Egyptians flew around in airplanes, too. :roll: I'm gonna be skeptical if it's a Mid-Eastern city.

[gh]

I haven't found the answer, but I have found corroboration for my ancient Rome skepticism, seems it topped out short by 100K. London's looker gooder! There is an outside chance that there was some Mid-Eastern cosmopolis - Constantinople, Damascus, Baghdad, Cairo.

How many bloody times you going to screw these up? Enjoy sitting the rest of the quiz out (and work on a new year's rez of "I'll learn to play nice with the other children").

[guru]

I'm going with Rome - being an Empire has to count for something.

[tandfman]

This reminds me of the trivia question that was being asked as we approached the year 2000. What was the world's largest city in the year 1000. I know the answer that was generally given surprised me. (I never did try to verify it.)

[Daisy]

I know the answer that was generally given surprised me. (I never did try to verify it.)

Do remember the answer?