What was the greatest city of the ancient world?

>>1706667
Edo, Japan

Rome, Rome.

Depends on the region tbqh

Helsinki

No jokes?

London n1
NYC n2
Rome n3
Paris n4

>>1706667
Rome is probably the most important city, all aspects of humanity considered.

Then you have Jerusalem > Paris > Istanbul > "insert american metropolis"

London should be in there for the industrial revolution.. perhaps after Paris.

>>1706708
He say ancient world, Rome easy, they got an empire named "Roman", but remember Rome lost importance at the end(Ravenne and Byzance).

Rome is the obvious and objectively right answer.

Maybe Athens could be on second place because of its legacy.

My ranking based on the knowledge I obtained from videogames

Rome
Mediolanum
Alexandria
Carthago
Massilia

>>1706667
Quebec

Rome, Constantinople, Teotihuacan, Chang'an

Ur

Nineveh
Vatican city museum claims it had a peak population of 800,000
This was way before Rome was relevant

>>1706667
Alexandria

>>1706754
>Vatican city museum
Is it any legit?

>>1706736
Rome total war

I'd say Rome, Chang'an, Baghdad, Timbuktu, Angkor, Tenochitlan, Venice, and New York City

Rome, Constantinople, Paris, Babylon, Alexandria

>>1706767
It was probably somewhere in that order of magnitude.

Mesopotamia had huge cities long before anyone else did.

>>1706791
New York city truly was the best city based on
>Population
>Influence
>Glory
>Wealth
>Legacy
in the ancient world

1. Rome
2. Paris
3. London
4. Constantinople
5. Athens
6. Jerusalem
7. Venice
8. Ravenna
9. Persepolis
10. Carthage

>>1706667
Rome
Athens
Babylon
Constantinople
Carthage

Anyone know how big Cusco was?

>>1706715
>Paris
>London
>Industrial revolution

I suggest you reread the title of the thread. Specifically "of the Ancient World"

>>1706667
Ctesiphon

>>1706667
Damascus

>>1706667

Uruk: First recorded state
Babylon: First city known as a wonder in it's own right
Persepolis: muh columns
Alexandria: muh library and lighthouse
Rome: muh colosseum
Constantinople: muh tourkokratia

>>1707065
if roam's colloseum is so special why is it a generic building in civ V instead of a wonder.

>>1707002
~150,000

http://www.ancient.eu/Cuzco/

>>1707031
Found the Hipster

>>1706667

Babylon

Athens

Rome

Constantinople

Memphis

Teotihuacan

Pataliputra

Chang'an

>>1707089

and Persepolis

>>1706754
Nineveh is currently ISIS capital am I correct?

I feel so sorry for the Assyrians :(

>>1706803
Your thread got hijacked boo hoo

>>1707255
>can't properly read the OP
>gives a wrong answer
>H-hijacked your thread! ;^)
Bassoon

>>1706667
>ctrl+f
>no ctesiphon

Wew

>>1706667
ctrl+f

no suzhou
no hangzhou

disgusting

they were the largest pre-industrial cites, they both had the grand canal running through them, they had reforestation programs, segmentation like a modern city with leisure, commercial, and residential districts, they had rudimentary plumbing, classical painting is based on their landscape

>>1707394
Right here >>1707031

1. Rome
2. Persepolis
3. Athens
4. Ninevah
5. Thebes
6. Jerusalem
7. Eridu
8. Carthage
9. Hatti
10. Akkad

>>1707235
nah Nineveh is just some ruins

You're thinking of Raqqah

>>1707394
How the fuck is that even pronounced

>>1708204
Tes-I-Phon

Some which haven't been mentioned:
>Knossos
>Anyang
>Mohenjo-Daro
>Harrapa
>Larsa
>Lagash
>encyclopedia of Mesopotamian cities

>>1708258
>them square city layouts

I'd kill to have this be more common in burgerland.

>>1708186
As in Mosul is modern day Nineveh

>>1707073
so good everyone had to have one