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Spriggan:
Have any of give much thought to what the Populations of the various countries should be?

I'm thinking Parth is between 5-10 million people (which could easly be feed from the farms around the rivers) and maybe Tarth half that.

Discuss....

The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers:
5-10 million is a LOT. Though it may be accurate for a medieval time. However, we're talking about a desert area.
For reference, Egypt when the Israelites left was about 2 million. COUNTING the Israelites.
When I start to care about anything today, I'll look up some medieval statistics

Spriggan:
Egypt in the new kingdom was around 10 million if I remember correctly.  Remeber that saitation was better in classical times so populations were actauly bigger in most cases compaired to the Middle ages where desease kept that from happening.

EDIT: ok in the New Kingdom (around 1,500-1,000 BC) it was about 6-7 million so I was close.  One thing I do have to account for is the several hundered miles of grassland which would add several thousand to my running total.  I'm thinking 5-6 million might be a good place for the worlds first nation (as the Parths see themselfs).  then maybe 2 for Tarth (there's just less good land there).

Spriggan:
I need to add one more thing here.  Which is the Captial of Parthann, Pirkash, I'm planning on it being the largest city in the southern contnet.  I can only see Bask or Tyl haveing the possibility of haveing a larger city.  But Bask is limited in that it's an island (with mountains) and I have no ide what SE is planning on for Tyl.  I was planning the population of over a million.  The city itself is going to be like Tokyo in that Tokyo isn't actualy a city (well there's a few square miles that are actualy considered "Tokyo") but a lot of smaller cities that just became known as a collective.  There will be an actual city of Pirkash, but it is the home of the goverment, most of the schools, musems, zoos ect.  It's kinda like D.C. in that very few people actualy live there (mainly diplomats and govement people) and that there are lots of other cities that are considered "districts" each with their own names.  All these cities will either be very close to each other or the center and some run together (much how Provo and Orem do).  I figure that way it would be much easier to sustain such a large population center.

The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers:
that's fine. Bask's capital's "Population" would probably be largely merchant visitors

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