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What can our evidence tell us about the size and social composition of Rome?
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What can our evidence tell us about the size and social composition of Rome? These days there any many ways to count the population of a city/country. You can count by using the census. You could count houses and set an approximate figure for how many people you think are living in each house. Church records can be a useful source of information if you wanted to know the number of Christians living somewhere. Another way to look for population figures is the number of claimants; this would give you a figure as to how many claimants there are in a city. The amount of food being imported in is a good way to see how many people are in a city, as the amount of the water supply being consumed daily. In Ancient Rome they counted the population by the same means as mentioned before, but they did...
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