Why Did Humans Invent Cities?
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Cities are a relatively new invention, by human standards. Why did Neolithic people 11,000 years ago decide to give up their nomadic, hunter-gatherer lives and start to settle? And what were these early cities like?
Resources on this topic:
https://ourworldindata.org/urbanization
https://www.history.com/news/prehisto... this era%2C early humans,and were hunters and gatherers, https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
The City Shaped by Spiro Kostof https://www.amazon.com/City-Shaped-Pa...
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/20...
https://www.thoughtco.com/eridu-iraq-...
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Written by Dave Amos and Hannah Woolsey
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