From the fourth millennium BCE to the Early second millennium CE the World became a World of cities.
Through case studies and Comparative accounts of key Cities across the world, leading scholars chart the ways in which these Cities grew as nodal points of pilgrimages and ceremonies, exchange.
This Volume explores this critical transformation, from the appearance of the earliest Cities in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the rise of Cities in Asia and the Mediterranean world, Africa, and the Americas.
From the fourth millennium BCE to the Early second millennium CE the World became a World of cities