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Iron_Man_88 t1_j5x8tn8 wrote

Reply to comment by MeatballDom in Simple/Short/Silly History Questions Saturday! by AutoModerator

Largest by population at the time it was conquered by war (a 100,000 pop city in antiquity would be massive even if it's not large by today's standards) - city does not necessarily need to have survived the war.

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nanoman92 t1_j5yub1h wrote

Niniveh by the Babylonians (100k), Rome by Alaric (500k), Ctesiphon by the Arabs (500k), Bagdad (1M) by the Mongols were the largest cities in the world when conquered.

Niniveh and Babylon were razed, in Rome and Ctesiphon the sacks wasn't that bad.

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