The Origins of Civilisation
The Ancients
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The Urban Revolution in China and the Central Plains
There is evidence of hunter gatherer communities experimenting with various strains of wild rice, of millet so forth. But by the time domestication really begins to take off, we can see these villages beginning to emerge in the early holocene. And similar to what we saw with mesopotamia, we begin to see what we might call proto cities in parts of the central in china. Some people suspect that perhaps some of the underpinnings date to those settlements and life ways.
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