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Wild Wild West 18 February 2009
| The history of cities in the world |
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| Reference > History |
| Written by KNIGHT RIDER K |
| Monday, 16 February 2009 23:47 |
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The branch of history and urban planning in charge of the study of cities and the process of urbanization is the urban history. The first true towns are sometimes considered large permanent settlements where the inhabitants are no longer simply farmers of the area surrounding the settlement, but went to work in more specialized occupations in the city, where trade, the stock of food and power was centralized. Using this definition, the earliest known cities appeared in Mesopotamia, such as Ur, along the River Nile in the Valley Civilization Indo and China, and approximately seven to five thousand years ago, often resulting in growth of small towns and / or the merger of smaller settlements among themselves. Before this season, settlements rarely reached significant size, although exceptions such as Jericho, Çatalhöyük and Mehrgarh exist. Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, both cities in the Valley Civilization Indo, were the most populous of these ancient cities, with a combined population estimated at 100 and 150 inhabitants. The growth of ancient and medieval empires led to the emergence of major capital cities and seats of provincial administration, like Babylon, Rome, Antioch, Alexandria, Carthage, Selêucida of Tigre, Pataliputra (located in present India) Changan (located in the current People's Republic China), Constantinople (now Istanbul) and, subsequently and successively, several Chinese and Indian cities closer to or even surpassing the mark of the half a million inhabitants. Rome had more than one million inhabitants in the first century BC, is considered by many as the only city to surpass that mark until the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Alexandria had a population of Rome in the next season (on a census of 32, Alexandria had 180 thousand citizens (adult males). Other major administrative centers, commercial, industrial and ceremonial emerged in other areas, most notably Baghdad, which, according some estimates would have been the first city to surpass the mark of one million inhabitants, instead of Rome. The territory previously occupied by the Roman Empire, the population of large cities would fall dramatically between ages V and VI, with the migration of peoples barbarians the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the beginning of feudalism. |
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