GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Louis Wirth, Gemeinschaft And Gesellschaft, Numeracy
12 Sep 2018
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What are the key factors: nature of settlement, densely populated, infrastructure (roads, public transport) is good, services are readily available, nature of what people do for is different (employment), rising livestock (rural area), physical landscape, commercial activity. Urban origins: the emergence of cities: region of first cities: mesopotamia, valley and plains between tigris and euphrates rivers (provided water for the region, emergence of cities: approx. 3500 bc (city of ur: very recent, small city, 20,000 people, other early cities in: present day turkey, egypt, india-pakistan, china; later. Europe and central and south america: what explains the emergence of cities, the (argicultural) surplus theory, a. nomadic (hunter-gatherer) societies (low population - not enough food, millions/hundreds of thousands of years, b. New and more complex social relationships ( eg. a new social hierarchy: 2. Religion (emerges as part of urbanization: language, writing, numeracy and educations, governance, etc (political leader, therefore: agricultural revolution = urbanization = culture.
