Preconditions to Urban Formation

Question 1

Main reason why people started settling and stopped being nomads?

Answer 1

• Agriculture
• Went from Pyramids to Manhattan in about 5,000 years
  • Paradigm Shift

Question 2

Preconditions to Civilization?

Answer 2

• Ecology
• Technology
• Power

Question 3

Community:

Answer 3

• Organizes strangers into a community
• Complex social cultural society
• People are involved

Question 4

Ecology

Answer 4

• Water
  • Stable food source
  • Access to transportation
  • Fishing/Trading near river

Question 5

Technology

Answer 5

• Sustained surpluses
  • Trying to grow food in abundance
  
  • Allowed people to stay in one place for a long time
• Building technology helps with transportation
• Elaborate ceremonial and monumental structures in cities

Question 6

Power

Answer 6

• Wealth and Influence
  • Priests
  • Theocracy and religion