Biggest Cities of the World in 1000 B.C.E. With a Map

3,026 years ago, the biggest cities of the world were small compared to today's cities, and the vast majority of them were located in just a handful of civilizations. With the help of a map, can you name every city of the Old and New World that had an estimated 10,000 or more inhabitants in the year 1000 B.C.E.?

Many of these cities no longer exist, and two have merged into a larger city

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Aramean
30,000	Aleppo
10,000	Damascus

Assyrian
12,000	Assur Qal'at Sherqat
10,000	Arrapha Kirkuk
10,000	Nineveh Mosul

Chinese
100,000	Haojing part of Xi'an
50,000	Luoyang
25,000	Fengjing part of Xi'an
10,000	Baoji
10,000	Kweiteh Shangqiu
10,000	Zhengzhou

Egyptian
70,000	Thebes Luxor
40,000	Memphis Mit Rahina
35,000	Tanis
25,000	Sais Sa el-Hagar
20,000	Heliopolis Ain Shams
20,000	Heracleopolis Ihnasya el-Medina
12,000	Athribis Tell Atrib
10,000	Bubastis Tell Basta
10,000	Hermopolis el-Ashmunein
10,000	Per-Sopdu Saft el-Hinna
10,000	Sebennytos Samannoud

Elamite
25,000	Susa Shush

Israelite
15,000	Hazor Tel Hazor

Babylonian
45,000	Babylon Hillah
20,000	Uruk Warka
15,000	Nippur Nuffar

Neo-Hittite
10,000	Carchemish Karkamış

Olmec
13,000	San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán
10,000	La Venta

Phoenician
10,000	Byblos
10,000	Sidon Saida
10,000	Tyre

Sabaean
20,000	Marib

Vedic
30,000	Hastinapura Meerut