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skip.knox reacted to Prince of Spires's post in the thread Does anyone know where I can get stats for city populations in years past? with
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It probably depends on the size of the city. The issue for ancient Rome for instance wasn't the raiders running through the countryside... -
skip.knox replied to the thread Does anyone know where I can get stats for city populations in years past?.Yes, and invasions and the Justinian Plague. All in all, a rough few centuries in there. Cities provide many conveniences to their...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Does anyone know where I can get stats for city populations in years past?.Yeah, 1900 is easy. Even 1800 isn't too hard. But there was not a national census before the late 1700s, and nothing very reliable even...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Three and a half years of writing ... and I still have no clue what I'm doing!.From your post I hear two problems. One is roadblocks. Can you share one or two specifics about that? The other is that you don't like...
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skip.knox replied to the thread It's 1900's Japan, you're stuck in a horror story, would you trust a random priest wearing a fox mask?.Would it matter whether the "you" in this instance is rural or urban? Would it matter if it was 1910 or 1940 or 1990? I'm assuming you...
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skip.knox replied to the thread What about archaic-style language?.I'm steeped in archaisms just now. I recently finished Guy Mannering by Walter Scott, and am embarked on Honoré Balzac next. One of the...