Human Relationships in a Habitat

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, Lucio de Souza Coelho
wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 October 2003 14:15, Al Globus wrote:
> (...)
> > It's important to note that until the last couple of thousand
years
> > people lived in groups probably not exceeding a few hundred.
Even
> > large cities a few hundred years ago were only a few tens of
thousands
> > (I think, anyone know?). Living in cities of millions of people
is a
> > very new thing for humanity.
> (...)
>
> Uh... There were some kind of *large* cities (hundreds of
thousands) even in
> before-Christ times. See this page:
> http://geography.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa011201a.htm .
>
> Lucio Coelho