“Ancient and Mystical Alphabets” metal, wall-chart, was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: “Ancient and Mystical Alphabets”, PART THREE (III).
COMMENTS.
Sumerian of Mesopotamia’ became the first written language in world history in 3,500 BC. The largest city in the world at that time was Uruk, Mesopotamia’ with 40,000 people.
BELOW the timeline of the largest city in the world from Uruk, Mesopotamia’ to Tokyo, Japan (largest today).
WORLD LARGEST CITY.
Uruk, Mesopotamia’ 3500 BC 40,000 people.
Memphis, Egypt 3100 BC
Akkad, Mesopotamia’ 2240 BC
Lagash, Mesopotamia’ 2075 BC
Ur, Mesopotamia’ 2030 BC 65,000 people.
Thebes, Egypt 1980 BC
Babylon, Mesopotamia’ 1770 BC
Avaris, Egypt 1670 BC
Memphis, Egypt 1557 BC
Thebes, Egypt 1400 BC
Nineveh, Mesopotamia’ 668 BC
Babylon, Mesopotamia’ 612 BC 200,000 people.
Alexandria, Egypt 320 BC
Pataliputra (Patna) India 300 BC
Changan (Xi’an), China 195 BC 400,000 people.
Rome 25 BC
Constantinople, Turkey 340 AD
Ctesiphon, Iraq 570 AD
Changan (Xi’an), China 637 AD 400,000 people.
Baghdad, Iraq 775 AD 1.00 million people.
Cordova, Spain 935 AD
Kaifeng, China 1013 AD 400,000 people.
Constantinople, Turkey 1127 AD
Merv, Turkmenistan 1145 AD 200,000 people.
Constantinople, Turkey 1153 AD
Fez, Morocco 1170 AD
Hangzhou, China 1180 AD 255,000 people.
Cairo, Egypt 1315 AD
Hangzhou, China 1348 AD 432,000 people.
Nanking, China 1358 AD 487,000 people.
Beijing, China 1425 AD 600,000 people.
Constantinople, Turkey 1650 AD 700,000 people.
Beijing, China 1710 AD 900,000 people.
London, England 1825 AD 1.35 million people.
New York City, United States 1925 AD 7.77 million people.
Tokyo, Japan 1965 AD 23 million people.
Here I presented: “Ancient and Mystical Alphabets”, PART THREE (III).
SUMMARY.
Ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia’, Egypt, India and China influenced other people to adopt writing.
Four ancient river valley civilizations: Mesopotamia’, Egypt, India and China have produced some the largest cities in the world.
Writing systems shown in the ABOVE wall-chart all are derived from the Mesopotamian’ cuneiform.
Cuneiform influenced other writing systems and allows us today to know the size of the cities of the past. Uruk, Mesopotamia’ was the beginning of it all.
