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The Cambridge World History: Volume 3, Early Cities in Comparative Perspective, 4000 BCE-1200 CE (Paperback)
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The Cambridge World History: Volume 3, Early Cities in Comparative Perspective, 4000 BCE-1200 CE (Paperback)
Series: The Cambridge World History
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From the fourth millennium BCE to the early second millennium CE
the world became a world of cities. This volume explores this
critical transformation, from the appearance of the earliest cities
in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the rise of cities in Asia and the
Mediterranean world, Africa, and the Americas. Through case studies
and comparative accounts of key cities across the world, leading
scholars chart the ways in which these cities grew as nodal points
of pilgrimages and ceremonies, exchange, storage and
redistribution, and centres for defence and warfare. They show how
in these cities, along with their associated and restructured
countrysides, new rituals and ceremonies connected leaders with
citizens and the gods, new identities as citizens were created, and
new forms of power and sovereignty emerged. They also examine how
this unprecedented concentration of people led to disease,
violence, slavery and subjugations of unprecedented kinds and
scales.
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