GGG Ping.
Must have elected the equivalent of Democrats to prevent Global warming, crop failures or lunar eclipse.
Is this one of the Rishi Cities of the Rama Empire, blam?
The columns remind me of Easter Island carvings.
Makes me wonder about the theories that every 10,000 years civilization repeats itself..destroys itself...and grows again. Atlantis is a legend but wonder if it was just a survivor of the last purge.
The city state of Athens had a much larger population. Even the city proper had far more than 10,000 full citizens. Maybe they meant 10,000 adult males — although even that figure would be low.
I remember a science fiction story about Atlantis being a “future memory” of America, after North America was so thoroughly submerged that just its highest peaks remained above the ocean, like Micronesia is today.
It was an odd note, that the rest of the world missed America so much, and remembered it so fondly, that even their ancestors remembered it before it existed as a nation.
OH, I thought this might be about another story from Orissa...how Christians in India are being attacked, killed, and their churches demolished - yet how thousands of the people of that area are coming to Jesus Christ - despite the fires of persecution burning brightly against Christians at the hands of the “peaceful” Hindu extremists....
See: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Christians_attacked_in_Chhattisgarh/articleshow/2709020.cms
And despite Professor Mohanty's false information, Athens may have had a citizen population of roughly 10,000 in its classical period, but a total population including slaves and foreigners that was much larger.
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Thanks Blam.Even classical Athens had only 10,000 people," said R K Mohanty...Yow. That's way off. Athens at its classical peak ("age" of Pericles) -- the extension of its walls to encompass the Piraeus -- was far bigger than this. The final number left alive after the defeat of Athens' expedition to Syracuse (in Sicily) during the Peloponnesian War was 40,000 (and I've seen even higher figures), which included "non-combatants" as well as non-Athenian allies. Still, it's obvious that the figure is wrong. The death toll of the epidemic (typhus?) which swept through the greater walled Athens during that war claimed at least 10,000. |
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How could Athens have sent an Army of 10,000 men to Marathon in 490BC with a population of only 10,000?