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Ancient Cities
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Why study ancient cities?
• Gives us examples of cities other than our own
• Brings us to consider the fundamentals of what
makes a city
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Pre-History
• Old Stone Age/Palaeolithic
– Basic stone, bone tools
– Hunting & gathering, no farming
– Only domesticate: the dog
• New Stone Age/Neolithic
– Sophisticated stone/bone tools
– Farming, cities, writing
– All domesticates
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The First Cities
• Very few urban centres in the Palaeolithic
– Catal Hayuk, Anatolia (made obsidian tools)
– Permanent fishing villages of the Pacific
Northwest
• Need strong food supply to sustain urban
settlement
– Really need farming
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Settled agricultural life
• Old world:
– Agriculture begins c. 10,000 years ago (YBP)
– Cities begin 5,300-5,500 YBP Mesopotamia, Indus
valley
• New world:
– Agriculture begins 2,000 YPB
– Cities begin 1,700 YBP
• Why the difference?
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The First Cities
• Emerge once crop agriculture begins
• Cities perform specialised non-agricultural
functions:
– Specialised manufacturing, trade
– Government
– Religion
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The First Cities
• Had powerful god-kings
• Often had monumental structures
• Hierarchic societies
– god-king at top
– various layers underneath
• Spatial order
– Power at the centre
– Palaces, temples at centre
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First Cities
• Mesopotamia:
– Southern Iraq, Tigris &
Euphrates rivers: Ur,
• Indus valley:
– Harrapa, Mohenjo-Daro etc.,
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Mohenjo-Daro
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Uruk
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Ur
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First Cities
• Cities emerge after long pre-urban period of
settled agricultural life
• Cities emerge before writing
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Exception: Catal Huyuk
• urban almost 10,000 YBP
• pre-agricultural
• 5-10,000 population
• based on mining and trade in obsidian
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First Cities
• Very rapid emergence of sophisticated urban
civilizations
– writing
– complex buildings
– skilled craftsmen
– luxury items
– long-distance trade
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First Cities
• Small by modern standards
– 10,000 was a big one
• Ancient monster cities:
– Classical Athens: 300,000
– Classical Rome: 650,000
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Why were they so small?
• Large cities require:
– large empire to feed and supply them
– complex, but effective organization
– significant military forces
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First Cities
• Key issue is urban social organization
• Can be fairly rural in setting:
– Mayan cities
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Chichen Itza
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Tikal
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First Cities
• Stark social
contrasts:
– god-King, priest
– craftsmen
– slaves
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Aztec Calendar
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First Cities
• Places where power was projected
– social
– religious
– military
– economic
• Connected with monumental structures
– helped to project the power?
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• Giza
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Tenoctitlan
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Teohuatican
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• Bayon,
Cambodia
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Cahokia
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Cahokia – Men’s House
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Cahokia
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First Cities
• Connected to the emergence of states
– projection of political power
– urban control over rural populations
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First Cities
• need to control rural territories
– obtain food, slaves
– collect “taxes”
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The First Cities
• Theocracies, monarchies
• Not democracies
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Classical Greece
• Complex long-distance trading networks
– Brings in goods, technology, ideas
• Expensive iron technology becoming vital to
warfare
– Greek kings too poor to equip iron-age armies
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Classical Greece
• Greek kings rely on wealthy farmers,
merchants to provide the army
• Diminishes the power of the king
• Power falls into the hands of farmers &
merchants
– Democracy
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Theories of Urban Origins
• Childe theory
• Trade theory
• Wittfogel’s Hydraulic theory
• Pivot and Four Quarters
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Childe Theory
• V Gordon Childe
• Technology allows
– accumulation of surpluses
– increased production
• Leads to more complex social organization
– cities
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Trade Theory
• Braidwood
• Cities emerge out of complex trading routes
– Catal Huyuk
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Hydraulic Theory
• Karl Wittfogel
• First cities emerge in agricultural regions
dependent on irrigation
• City states developed as means of organizing
irrigation schemes, agriculture
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Pivot & Four Quarters
• Paul Wheatley
• Religious activity is the key factor
• Cities emerge as key control points, temple
locations, centres receiving religious tributes
– Works, especially in China, Mesoamerica, but
annoys the Marxists
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Synoecism
• Rural area gradually evolves into an urban one
• If rural develops urban social organization
• Gradually transformed
– ancient Athens, Rome
– rural district surrounding fortified temple/refuge
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Classical Athens
• Began as a rural region focussed
– on a central fortified temple site (the Acropolis)
– on a central marketplace (the Agora)
• Developed into a city-state
• Ordinary Athenians
– Lived in simple, even crude housing
– Public space more elaborate
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Classical Athens
• Private space
– Not very opulent
• Public space
– Adorned, ornamented
– Public life important in a democracy
– Public space beautified as a make-work scheme for
urban unemployed
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Classical Athens
• Segregation by social status
– Citizen/foreigner/craftsman/slave
– Male/female
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Classical Athens
• Classical Greek homes were gender-segregated
– Gynaekonitis: for the women
– Andron: for the men
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Priene
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