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How many people lived in the ancient city of Rome at its peak, around 100 AD?
1 million
people
1,000,000 exactly, give or take
A million people — no city on Earth matched it again for 1,700 years.SOURCEAncient demography studies
Scale check: 1 million is roughly everyone in Birmingham.
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