Ancient Rome actually is estimated to have just around one million at its peak.
Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 05/09/2017 11:10:10 PM
Granted, that's a rough upper bound, and it's all educated guesswork, but the idea of Rome containing a million people in its heyday is not completely ludicrous.
It's worth noting that sustaining that population required Roman control of both Greece and Egypt.
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