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I wonder, were population centers large enough to be considered "busy" before domesticated horses and carriages were around?
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_Roman_Empire
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_Roman_Empire
That number is usually considered to be way too high fwiw. At 1,000,000, it would have a population density of over 72,000 per square kilometer. Manila is the densest city in the world today at about 43,000 per square kilometer.
It's even less likely when you consider they didn't have any sort of high rises and a third of the city was dedicated to parks and public buildings.