World History
Here are the world's largest cites from 4000 BCE to the present from Slate Magazine. They got the chart from Goldman Sachs who just published a report with their favorite 100 charts. This was one of them. If you go to their site here, you can click the chart and enlarge it.
You'll see, for example, that in 1000 CE, Kaifeng was the largest city in the east with a population of almost 1,000,000. And Cardoba was the largest in the West with a population of about 200,000.
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World History
The World's Largest Cities Over Time
You'll see, for example, that in 1000 CE, Kaifeng was the largest city in the east with a population of almost 1,000,000. And Cardoba was the largest in the West with a population of about 200,000.
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I found this fun short article at ezinearticles.com. As the site allows for the reproduction of articles by blogs and other websites, I am going to go ahead and reprint it here. The author of the article is Beverly P. Frank. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
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History of Japan. This is a brief history of the Asian nation of Japan. It gives very little attention to most of Japanese history and instead focuses on the last 250 years. I have been in Japan twice but it was only to change planes. I hope to really...
- History Of South Africa
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I like to say that every course uses social studies and this one is no different as it covers all four of the courses I am teaching this year. First off it starts by saying that in 1AD the two biggest economies, based on GDP, were China and India....
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As much as I love teaching I occasionally get frustrated by my students' amazing ability to get around our school blocks and get on Facebook, but then when they have to do an assignment, they can't seem to use a search engine for a positive use....