What? I mean of course there were far fewer people in the Middle East than in modern times, but that’s true everywhere. By area there’s a lot of desert in former Umayyad territory, but still from west to east you had densely populated areas in Iberia, the Mediterranean coast, Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Persia and India. At its peak the Umayyad Caliphate contained 13% of the world’s population, so they were definitely no slouches on that front.
What? I mean of course there were far fewer people in the Middle East than in modern times, but that’s true everywhere. By area there’s a lot of desert in former Umayyad territory, but still from west to east you had densely populated areas in Iberia, the Mediterranean coast, Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Persia and India. At its peak the Umayyad Caliphate contained 13% of the world’s population, so they were definitely no slouches on that front.
You’re saying there were more people in those regions 1200 years ago than today.
Egypt alone has more people in it today than the mongols, Romans or umayyed ever had on their own.
Oh shit I mixed that up. I meant that there are far fewer people there than in modern times.