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Can you name the Most Populous Nations in Year 1*?
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*Think about it like this: If our modern-day borders were placed on a map of the world in the year A.D. 1, which countries would have the largest populations?
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Approximate Population
Nation
62,000,000
60,000,000
8,000,000
7,000,000
7,000,000
7,000,000
6,000,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
4,000,000
Approximate Population
Nation
4,000,000
4,000,000
3,000,000
3,000,000
3,000,000
2,000,000
2,000,000
2,000,000
2,000,000
2,000,000
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Most Populous Nations in Year 1 Quiz
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Created Dec 1, 2009 in
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Kicking222
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 21:55 GMT
10 points
First, I would love to see the source. Second, wouldn't a nation in Year 1 be, like, Assyria (as opposed to current nations)?
WorldWhiz
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 22:06 GMT
1 point
@Kicking222: My source is a book, "The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the Way We Live". As for the modern/ancient nations question, I put into this quiz what was in the book; maybe they take the populations as if they were for modern-day borders. If anyone has a good idea on this, let me know.
Bulletchewer6
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 22:28 GMT
1 point
I liked it! Amazing how much some countries have grown, most of that being in the last 150 years or so; modern science, take a bow.
kelil
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 22:34 GMT
1 point
Really interesting quiz. From the title I was expecting to name Roman empire etc. but this turned out to be just as interesting.
conradmcmasters
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Dec 1st, 2009 at 22:52 GMT
1 point
I'm with kicking on this one.
joebobs
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Dec 2nd, 2009 at 00:13 GMT
4 points
^ seconded. Very interesting idea, but awkward to actually make into a quiz.
Doctor_Tom
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Dec 2nd, 2009 at 05:02 GMT
2 points
It would be cool with the nations of the time, but i'd argue it's more fun this way considering that after China, Rome, and Japan I'd probably be done.
batmann
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Dec 2nd, 2009 at 07:51 GMT
2 points
wow india and china had a lot of people back then damn
enamez06
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Dec 2nd, 2009 at 09:06 GMT
1 point
great quiz
johnlk
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Dec 2nd, 2009 at 15:53 GMT
7 points
Interesting, although some of the absences are surprising. Iraq didn't have 2 million people?
thenastyaetolian
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Dec 2nd, 2009 at 16:10 GMT
2 points
Perhaps you should change the title of the quiz to specify what you mean, or explain in the first comment. Also, how do you specify nation, or how did the authors of your book? Some of those countries didn't exist in Year 1, ergo there were no "nations", and especially not in modern sense of the word. If you mean the number of people living in the territories of these modern countries, then the term 'nation' applies here even less. But a good idea nonetheless!
acp39
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Dec 2nd, 2009 at 20:59 GMT
-1 points
I find it very hard to believe that in AD 1. the territories of modern-day France, Spain and Algeria had more people than the territories of modern-day Egypt, Syria and Tunisia at that time.
Fidelio
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Dec 2nd, 2009 at 22:33 GMT
4 points
Acp39, do you realize that Egypt is on the quiz, and higher on the list than Algeria?
WorldWhiz
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Dec 3rd, 2009 at 20:42 GMT
1 point
@thenastyaetolian: I've explained this puzzle a little clearer in the added note at the top of the page (5th bullet).
moominpaul
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Dec 3rd, 2009 at 23:05 GMT
1 point
Algeria - Carthage, how could i forget you =/
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CapeYaleCod
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Dec 4th, 2009 at 01:57 GMT
-11 points
@thenasty...whatever your handle is...you are a huge tool. Never, EVER, use "ergo" in a comment again. I hope you read this and use it to realize the changes you need to make in your life to be able to talk to a member of the opposite sex.
mayfan
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Apr 23rd, 2010 at 02:02 GMT
2 points
This quiz was fun! It makes you have to think harder to place nations in their ancient borders.
willwoodlen
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Jun 5th, 2010 at 02:37 GMT
2 points
I thought it was a lot of fun, too. I was surprised Greece wasn't there.
JayZed
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Jun 8th, 2010 at 20:34 GMT
1 point
moominpaul: Carthage was in what is now Tunisia, but had been destroyed 146 years earlier.
Hejman
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Jun 9th, 2010 at 19:51 GMT
1 point
WorldWhiz- if you want to be able to list a source for a book, one way to do so is to link the Amazon.com (or other online bookseller) page for that book. In this case, it's: http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Real-World-Mapping-Second/dp/0500288534/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276113050&sr=8-2
Apollo846
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Nov 11th, 2010 at 20:49 GMT
1 point
I think it's incredibly difficult for any source to REALLY have an estimate as to how many people lived in different places, especially in places like Brazil, USA, Canada, Indonesia, Australia. I don't know how convinced I am by these numbers...
skye_eg
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Jul 11th, 2012 at 21:01 GMT
1 point
@acp39: it makes perfect sense that the territories of modern-day France and Spain had more people in AD 1 than Tunisia and Algeria.
johnlk
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Sep 28th, 2012 at 22:07 GMT
1 point
I don't see how it's even vaguely possible that France had more people than Egypt.
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