Re: Size of Glorantha

• In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, "Toread DuDerysi" <jakyer@...> wrote:
  >
  > --- In WorldofGlorantha@yahoogroups.com, "danhalberd" <dan@> wrote:
  > >> Now look at the population of the Lunar Empire - from ILH1: 7
  330
  > 000
  > > including the provinces. Compare this with the Roman Empire:
  between
  > > 45 and 120 million depending on which estimates you use and the
  > > period you are talking about. The Seleukid Empire probably had a
  > > population around 25 million. 7 million is more like the
  population
  > > of Hellenistic Egypt.
  >
  > I would note that none of the real world places cited went from a
  few
  > hundred huddled survivors of catastrophe to those numbers in a mere
  > 1600 years. Remember that, in many ways, Glorantha is a post-
  apocalpyic
  > world. The population levels are not even close to what they might
  be
  > in a less damaged world.
  >
  > Jeff
  >
  

This is a very good point. I don't intend to change the population of Glorantha - I just think I'll note the difference in population between Gloranthan states and real world states.             Received on Mon 08 Oct 2007 - 07:16:25 EEST