Reply #26: Nah that look just like London circa 950 ce.

[Warren Stupidity]

And the Paris Metro was built in 875.

"The country’s major manufactured products are petrochemicals (w/a fertilizer plant in Shiraz), steel (w/mills in Esfahan and Khuzestan), and copper products. Other important manufactures include automobiles (with production crossing the 1 million mark in 2005), <16> electric appliances (television sets, refrigerators, washing machines, and other consumer items), telecommunications equipment, cement, industrial machinery (Iran has the largest operational stock of industrial robots in West Asia) <17>, paper, rubber products, processed foods (including refined sugar and vegetable oil), carpets, leather products and pharmaceuticals. Currently, 55 pharmaceutical companies in Iran produce more than 96 per cent (quantitatively) of medicines on the market worth $1.2 billion annually.<18><19>"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Iran

Of course the Chinese were building over one million cars anually back in the Tang dynasty.