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Originally Posted by Mormon Red Death
Weren't they just following in the tradition of bible and over exaggerating the number of people? Also we are talking about the extinction of a people. 230k doesn't seem that unreasonable
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It seems unreasonable to me, given ancient world logistics such as transportation, supplies, communication, etc. It would take a huge amount of land in AD 350 to support 1/4 million people with ancient agricultural techniques.
I like AA's idea. There's precedent for groups of 10,000, but again, the Persian empire stretched from India to Turkey and Egypt.