Roman cities that surprassed 500,000 inhabitants during Roman Golden Age>RomeIslamic cities that surprassed 500,000 inhabitants during Islamic Golden Age>Baghdad>Cairo>Córdoba>Kairouan>Fez>Samarkand>Gorgan>PalermoEtc etc etcThe difference between an statist, centralized and mercantilist empire that used its provinces as colonies made up to extract resources to supply Rome. And a liberal and federalist caliphate in which each emir appointed by the caliph is responsible for supplying his people within a meta-emirative economy network that merged distant trading routes and cultures.
>>18290853You forgot Tehran and Isfahan also had over 500K before the Mongols and the Timurids devastated the Iranian population
>>18290853The only cities here which had over half a million people during the period associated with the Islamic Golden Age was Baghdad and Codoba. Your part on Rome isn't even true either, Alexandria, Antioch and Byzantium all had a population around that number. If you want to play the game of extending what the 'Islamic Golden Age' is, then Late Medieval Paris also counts as being part of the Roman Golden Age.>Rome is mercantilist The Romans were explicitly not that and utterly rejected it.>that used its provinces as colonies made up to extract resources to supply Rome.Extraction was largely in the form of grain from North Africa and Egypt. They paid for the grain at market prices as well. That's hardly a colony system>federalist caliphateThe Caliphate was not federalist. It simply failed to project central power outside of Syria by the late Umayyads and carved up parts of the Near East for tribes. That's like calling 8th century Anglo-Saxon England a single federalist kingdom.
>>18290864Altaic devastation was insane during Medieval Era
>>18290853That's why Romans are considered so irrelevant in the Islamic nations. For cultures that have witnessed numerous empires such as the Chaldeans, Assyrians, Egyptians, Macedonians, Mongols, Ottomans and so on, the Roman Empire was like a faint, inconsequential breeze in the grand scheme of things.
>>18290906>That's why Romans are considered so irrelevant in the Islamic nationsIt's because they were actively persecuted and intellectuals from the region just left to Byzantium because they were friendly towards them. The Christian intellectual class of the Near East in the Middle Ages overwhelmingly left the first chance they got to Byzantium.>For cultures that have witnessed numerous empires such as the Chaldeans, Assyrians, Egyptians, Macedonians, Mongols, Ottomans and so on, the Roman Empire was like a faint, inconsequential breeze in the grand scheme of things.The Romans completely annihilated all of their cultures and identities. Nor do people think in the time frame of thousands of years back when shaping their identity in the medieval period. Even the ancient Greeks new jack shit about the Assyrians. Why would people who have known nothing but Roman rule for the past 700 years care about them?
>>18290924>Roman Empire scientists (753 BC / 476 AD)Pliny the Elder>Islamic Scientists (630 - 1258)Averroes, Aviccena, Abulcasis, Azarquiel, Ibn Wafid, Omar Jayam, al-Razi, Ibn Jayyan, Ibn Khaldun, etc etc etc.Romans did nothing for science, philosophy or human progress.
>>182909390/10 bait
Woah browns breed like rats and population increased from 0 ad to 700 ad WAOW!
>>18290939>Averroes, Aviccena
