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As there was in the year 2000(CE), is there any evidence that suggests that there were there celebrations commemorating the start of the first millennia in 1000(CE)?

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With so much of a lesser human population overall, one would expect that the density of famously dense cities nowadays would be astronomically less so in older times. Is this the case? Were cities like Rome much more empty in the middle/earlier ages?

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As there was in the year 2000(CE), is there any evidence that suggests that there were there celebrations commemorating the start of the first millennia in 1000(CE)?	117
With so much of a lesser human population overall, one would expect that the density of famously dense cities nowadays would be astronomically less so in older times. Is this the case? Were cities like Rome much more empty in the middle/earlier ages?	1