Mesoamerica
Mayan and Aztec Civilizations
- Many ancient cities were theocratic
- rulers were deemed to have divine authority
- god-kings
Division of Urbanization
The Greek Cities
- by 500 BCE, Greeks were highly urbanized
- Network of more than 500 cities and towns
- On the mainland and islands
- Each city had an acropolis and an agora
The Roman Cities
- A system of cities and small towns linked together with hundreds of miles of roads and sea routes
- Sites of Roman cities were typically for trade
- A Roman's city's Forum combined the acropolis and agora into one space
- Had extreme wealth and extreme poverty (between 1/3 and 2/3 of the empire's population was enslaved)
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