Today in Human geo class we continued with notes.

Two components enable the fprmation of cities
1. Anagricultural Surplus
2. Social Stratification

5 hearths of Urbanization
1. Mesopotamia (Iraq) 3,500 BCE
2. Nile river valley (egypt) 3,200 BCE
3. Indus river valley (India) 2,200 BCE
4. Huang He and Wei River valley (china) 1,500 BCE
5. Mesoamerica (central America) 200 BCE

Theocratic= Setteld around god = Mesoamerica

Diffusion Of Urbanization

The greek cities
By 500 BCE, Greeks were highly urbanized
-Network of more than 500 cities and towns
-On the mainland and on islands
-Each city had an acropolis and an agora

The roman cities
A system of cities and small towns, linked together woth hundreds of miles of roads and sea routes
-Sites of roman cities were typically for trade
-A roman city's Forum combined the acropolis and agora into one space
-Roman cities had extreme wealth and extreme poverty (between 1/3 and 2/3s of the empire's population was enslaved)     Thats all we did in class today but today was my birthday and mr schick was nice enough to let the class sing happy birthday to me.