Why Did Humans Invent Cities?
Subscribe to Nebula and get $10 off at: https://go.nebula.tv/citybeautiful Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/citybeautifu... 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-... Produced by Dave Amos and the fine folks at Nebula Studios. Written by Dave Amos and Hannah Woolsey Select images and video from Getty Images. Black Lives Matter. Trans rights.
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