GEO 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fertile Crescent, Nippur, Eridu
20 Oct 2017
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The earliest cities occurred first in mesopotamia, part of the fertile crescent and the area between the tigris and euphrates rivers in what is now iraq, and were associated with the. But there is considerable debate about whether the earliest of these (cid:858)(cid:272)ities(cid:859) were little (cid:373)ore than large villages. Dati(cid:374)g what is a (cid:858)(cid:272)ity(cid:859) (cid:271)efore 5,000years ago is fraught with pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)s. Credit for being the first cities usually goes to the sumerian locations of uruk, ur and eridu, all of which were at one point located on the banks of euphrates river. All of these cities were first and foremost religious centres. Nippur was also a large and important religious city by about 5,000years ago and show one of the first city. Between 1830 and 1880 population doubled but the area of central london grew only slightly (the pedestrian city), leading to very high densities.
