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History fans will love this map showing the birth of cities across nearly 6,000 years

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Re: History fans will love this map showing the birth of cities across nearly 6,000 y

This is really cool. It's interesting how slowly it starts then the earth explodes in recent centuries like popcorn popping.

Cool the way things go exponential towards the end.
 
Re: History fans will love this map showing the birth of cities across nearly 6,000 y

Cool the way things go exponential towards the end.
So the financial advice would be: "Invest in farmland"?
 
Re: History fans will love this map showing the birth of cities across nearly 6,000 y

This is really cool. It's interesting how slowly it starts then the earth explodes in recent centuries like popcorn popping.

I SAW that. The fertile crescent IS the cradle of civilization.

There were cities in the Gaelic west long before they showed in the map however.

What's very interesting is that Human DNA diaspora follows that very same track during that period.
 
Re: History fans will love this map showing the birth of cities across nearly 6,000 y

Cool the way things go exponential towards the end.

You have modern medicine to thank for that. Before it came on the scene, the human population's birth rate and death rate were fairly balanced. Afterwards, the birth rate stayed the same but the death rate plummeted. Voila: exponential increase.
 
Re: History fans will love this map showing the birth of cities across nearly 6,000 y

You have modern medicine to thank for that. Before it came on the scene, the human population's birth rate and death rate were fairly balanced. Afterwards, the birth rate stayed the same but the death rate plummeted. Voila: exponential increase.

Medicine did very little for life expectancy, the real changer was louis pasteur discovering backteria, and how things like boiling lake water and washing hands practically doubled the life expectancy. Prior to that people would eat food with dirty hands, often never clean dishes, drink bacteria ridden water etc.
 
Re: History fans will love this map showing the birth of cities across nearly 6,000 y

This is really cool. It's interesting how slowly it starts then the earth explodes in recent centuries like popcorn popping.

The big issue with that map is it shows very few cities, so I guess it would depend on how big a population needed to be for it to be a city. Archaeologists keep digging new things every day, and have been showing evidence of villages towns etc going back to around 10000 bc, during hunter gatherer days. granted hunter gatherers moved in a pattern, so they towns not full blown cities, and occupation was seasonal.


Places like india show evidence of civilization and cities prior to the map, but evidence is thin, actually everything for than a few thousand years old is next to impossible to find, and requires perfect conditions to preserve it, which is why fossil records are so thin, and why scientists tend to look in places they expect them to be preserved.

The oddities are hunter gatherer europe, which has shown to have cloth manufacturing and full trade routes, and south america which shows civilization around 13-17k years old, and shown they had trade routes as well, as some of what they dug up was from other parts of south or central america, and even north america.
 
Re: History fans will love this map showing the birth of cities across nearly 6,000 y

So the financial advice would be: "Invest in farmland"?

Towards the End it is with impunity. Enjoy!!
 
Re: History fans will love this map showing the birth of cities across nearly 6,000 y

You have modern medicine to thank for that. Before it came on the scene, the human population's birth rate and death rate were fairly balanced. Afterwards, the birth rate stayed the same but the death rate plummeted. Voila: exponential increase.

Balance it good, unless it is you that is being balanced. ;)
 
Re: History fans will love this map showing the birth of cities across nearly 6,000 y

Medicine did very little for life expectancy, the real changer was louis pasteur discovering backteria, and how things like boiling lake water and washing hands practically doubled the life expectancy. Prior to that people would eat food with dirty hands, often never clean dishes, drink bacteria ridden water etc.

Many people consider this discovery as part of the advancement of medicine.
 
Re: History fans will love this map showing the birth of cities across nearly 6,000 y

Many people consider this discovery as part of the advancement of medicine.

I guess you could classify it as medicine, but medicine itself it was not. He did use those dicoveries to invent medicine like vaccines, but I feel the knowledge that prevented people from dumping trash and feces in the street and washing their hands played a bigger role.

This is why hunter gatherers lived nearly as long as modern humans, they did not live in their own filth. With civilization humans wallowed in their own filth for thousands of years, until the discovery of bacteria shown people how bad that was.
 
Re: History fans will love this map showing the birth of cities across nearly 6,000 y

We're all being balanced eventually.

Oh, no doubt about it. In that way life is very fair. :mrgreen:
 
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