10-19-2006, 04:31 PM
I'm not saying I think it was 5,000,000, but it certainly could have been alot. And I'm right about my calculation. Mind it was for volume not area. Considering that humans can't be stacked then perhaps area would have been a better choice. Still, the 2x2 square being kept, it's only an area 29 miles on a side. (for 6 billion people)
If you take the same math, shoulder to shoulder the rediculously huge army of 5,000,000 takes less than one square mile of surface area. With enough of those triple stacked ships (I know greeks had three levels, I'm unfamiliar with the persians) I could see haveing well over a sqaure mile of floor space on a fleet.
My math, less I be flawed:
People: 2' x 2' = 4', 4' x 5,000,000 = 20 million ft squared. (72% mile)
A mile: 5,280' x 5,280' = 27.88 million ft. squared.
*5,000,000 people could *fit* in an area that was .72 square miles.
My little point is that the fleet size isn't as much of an obstacle as one might think. But I'm not sure how long of a voyage you could make stacked shoulder to shoulder though. Anyone no how long it sould take to get from Thessaly to Salamis? Any good guesses? Also I'm not sure a regular ship could support that much weight. Then maybe they made alterations or special ships for this? The greeks certainly did.
If you take the same math, shoulder to shoulder the rediculously huge army of 5,000,000 takes less than one square mile of surface area. With enough of those triple stacked ships (I know greeks had three levels, I'm unfamiliar with the persians) I could see haveing well over a sqaure mile of floor space on a fleet.
My math, less I be flawed:
People: 2' x 2' = 4', 4' x 5,000,000 = 20 million ft squared. (72% mile)
A mile: 5,280' x 5,280' = 27.88 million ft. squared.
*5,000,000 people could *fit* in an area that was .72 square miles.
My little point is that the fleet size isn't as much of an obstacle as one might think. But I'm not sure how long of a voyage you could make stacked shoulder to shoulder though. Anyone no how long it sould take to get from Thessaly to Salamis? Any good guesses? Also I'm not sure a regular ship could support that much weight. Then maybe they made alterations or special ships for this? The greeks certainly did.
