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The Origins of Civilisation

The Ancients

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The Urban Revolution in Mesopotamia

According to thes conventional views, shall we say, these patterns that people are looking for. In terms of litinous test the earliest. People most often point to the mid polisy, something like five thousand years ago,. maybe six thousand places like mesopotamia. And one of the reasons we attribute to the rise of this kind of urbanized tradition or civilization has to do with that larger story that child was talking about. So, neolithic revolution leading to the urban revolution.

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