Sentence examples for earliest cities from inspiring English sources
I am still researching the world's earliest cities and half expect to find examples older than Eridu.
That was the crucible of Sumerian civilization, where art, architecture, law and writing developed with the rise of the earliest cities and spread through commerce and conquest.
It surveys the culture of the third millennium B.C., mainly centered in Mesopotamia, the crucible of Sumerian civilization, where art, architecture, law and writing developed with the rise of the earliest cities.
For instance, it's notable that the earliest cities from China to Mesoamerica can all be found in a similar latitudinal belt, suggesting a possible link between early phases of urbanisation and climate.
Baghdad is a mere baby, too, when compared with Uruk, another ancient Mesopotamian urban settlement, which lays claim to being one of the world's earliest cities and which was, sometime around 3,200BC, the largest urban centre on earth with a population estimated at up to 80,000.
The phone scammers and infomercial wannabes of the 80's and 90's -- who themselves supplanted the land speculators who established Florida's earliest cities upon shifting sand and sinking swamps -- have been pushed aside by the new boys on the block, the bulk e-mailers of the Internet.
Conventions could start earlier, other cities competing.
The earliest city charter dates from 1176.
In Canada, these developments were slower to emerge: the first craft locals appeared in Montreal in 1827 and in Toronto in 1832, and the earliest city central came only in 1871, with the formation of the Toronto Trades Assembly.
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The historical record shows that early cities and states were prone to sudden implosion.
