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Subscribe to Nebula and get $10 off at: https://go.nebula.tv/citybeautifulWatch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/citybeautiful-why-did-humans-invent-citiesCities are a relatively new invention, by human standards. Why did Neolithic people 11,000 years ago decide to give up their nomadic, hunter-gatherer lives and start to settle? And what were these early cities like?Resources on this topic:https://ourworldindata.org/urbanizationhttps://www.history.com/news/prehistoric-ages-timeline#:~:text=During this era%2C early humans,and were hunters and gatherers, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-ancient-proto-city-reveals-the-origin-of-homeThe City Shaped by Spiro Kostof https://www.amazon.com/City-Shaped-Patterns-Meanings-Through/dp/0821220160/ref=sr_1_1?crid=25ALPSJ3L24M4&keywords=the+city+shaped&qid=1679087146&sprefix=the+city+shaped%2Caps%2C143&sr=8-1https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/feb/16/whats-the-oldest-city-in-the-worldhttps://www.thoughtco.com/eridu-iraq-earliest-city-in-mesopotamia-170802Produced by Dave Amos and the fine folks at Nebula Studios.Written by Dave Amos and Hannah WoolseySelect images and video from Getty Images.Black Lives Matter.Trans rights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
