I found this fascinating. Things I noticed: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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– For a much longer time than I’d expected, city formation is slow, and confined to the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– About a thousand years in: Gilgamesh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
– Gradually, cities spread east and west, then fill in the gaps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
– Some cities I think of as really old are not nearly as old as some less well-known cities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
– Some cities I think of as very modern are actually old. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
– Lots of cities in Africa, many of them medieval or before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
– Unsurprisingly, things start to get busy around the early Middle Ages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
– There’s a slowdown around, I think, the time of the Black Death, but no caption for it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
– Things get really busy around 1800. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
– Surprisingly many cities were founded in the 20th century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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