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Cities and Civilization
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Earliest urban “hearths”TurkeyMesopotamiaEgyptIndus Valley
Yellow River valley, ChinaMesoamericaAndean AmericaE. and S. Africa
3500-1500 BC
2000-1000 BC
0-1500 AD
1000-1500 AD
1000-1500 AD
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Simplified version
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Diffusion of urbanismBy urbanism we mean a way of life, a set of institutions, a kind of social organizationInvented various times and placesDiffused from each of these places to other places
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Civi…
Civic, civilization, civilize, city, civility
These English words reflect the long association between ideas of urban life and a refinement of thought and behavior
All derive from Latin
Rulers of the Roman Empire saw city building as the way to spread civilization
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What is the essence of this?Socio-spatial dialectic
People are shaped by their environmentsPeople shape their environments
By living in a “world of strangers” where people have varied roles
Individuals have the opportunity to broaden their worldview and refine their awareness of themselves and the worldKnowledge and artistic expression is developed farther than is possible in rural society
Urban culture is a distinct kind of culture wherever it occurs, although it also varies from place to placeSometimes urban culture and society is called “urbanism”
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Civil-izing viewed in retrospect
Urban life does not necessarily uplift the human spiritThe city becomes a second wilderness with its own predators & preyCulture distracts and titillates us as often as it uplifts us As we adapt to “second nature” we forget about our dependence on “first nature”
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What does this sculpture “tell” us?
Found in excavation of Teotihuacan
Says two things about the division of labor
Says something about cultural development
Labor specialization leads to the development of skills as varied as stone-carving and acrobatic performance
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Original Social Hierarchy in City
TINY MINORITYGod-KingPriests (doubled as administrators)Technicians (e.g. surveyors, engineers)Artisans & performersMerchants
MAJORITYSubjects (mostly peasant farmers)Conquered peoplesSlaves
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Purpose of the city?
The city was invented not once but many times, and served various needs
Defense against outsidersAn immediate concern of agriculturalists surrounded by pastoralists and other less sedentary peoplesDefense of property as much as of life
Ceremonial CenterMonumental architectureResidences of priests and scribesPlace for conducting periodic ceremonies and rituals
Management of resourcesCreation of irrigation systems, granaries, etc.Collection of taxes/tribute for distribution to members of the court (sometimes after sacrifice to the gods)Distribution of stored food to subjects in times of famine
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Characteristics of Early Cities
Early cities emerge at different times in different places (meaning of “early” varies)
Populations ranging from a few thousand to more than 100,000, but generally in the 7,000-20,000 range
Generally have Citadel with monumental architecture (temples, palaces)
Often surrounded by a city wall
Often have some form of record-keeping
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Defensive Sites
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“Pueblo Bonito”Chaco Canyon, NMBuilt in stages beginning around 919 AD by the “Anasazi” people
5 stories in height along back wall, up to 600 rooms in use1000-2000 occupants?
Access to rooms through central courtyard, which contained two great religious gathering places called kivas and was lined by over 35 smaller kivas
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Mesa Verde, Colorado
Early city or fortified village?
Largest cliff dwelling (Cliff Palace) had room for only 100-120 people
Essentially a village
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Mesa Verde
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Urbillum, Irbil, Erbil, Arbela, Arabilu
Under control of Sumerians, Persians, Macedonians, Ottoman Empire, Kurds & IraqSite continuously occupied for 8,000 years (underground water source)Has been a city for 4,300 years!Enormous “tell” has not yet been excavated
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Defensive elements
“Protection” of Neolithic villagers may have been akin to blackmail (Lewis Mumford)
Eventually, however, the village with a hunter at the heart might grow and evict or incorporate neighboring people
The city tended toward empire from its earliest days
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Assyrian conquest, 9th c. BCWomen and children celebrate outside their walled-city as the dead float byCity has always required defendingPerhaps people were not psychologically and culturally prepared for the regimentation and social stress of urban life; they took out suppressed aggression on other groups
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Assyrians taking captivesfrom a 9th c. BC engraving (source: Society of Ancients: http://www.soa.org.uk)
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Carcassonne: a medieval walled city
Old Roman foundations, new construction from 11th c. Permanent population remained small: 9,500 by 14th c.Also see virtual Carcassonne on the web at http://www.carcassonne.culture.fr/
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Outer wall
Inner wall
castle
Main gate
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An Intimidating Approach
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Between the Walls
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Mont Saint-Michel
France
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Cosmo-Magical OrderPaul Wheatley argues that knowledge of weather and climate was considered part of religion, and priests or god-kings became important figures at the center of an agriculturally-based urban societyRegular “grid-iron” layout was not originally designed for practical purposesCities like Teotihuacan, Roman colonies, and China’s Forbidden City were aligned with the cardinal directions (axially) in an attempt to make them eternal and powerfulThe city, especially the citadel, was believed to be the center of the universe and axiality demonstrated that idea visually
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The “Citadel”
Found in many early citiesTakes various formsA compound of grandiose structures, often walled off from rest of cityFunctioned as:
place of ceremonyhome for semi-divine leaders and their “court”storage place for food reserves
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“Mohenjo-Daro” (mound of the dead)
Harappan culture (Indus valley, in what is now Pakistan)
Peak around 2000 BC
About 35,000 residents
Assembly halls, giant granary, towers, and cistern (bath?) in the citadel
PlannedAxial layout
Covered sewers
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Harappan cities (artist’s conception)
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Ziggurats (Mesopotamian temples)
A place for the performance of religious ceremonies by the Mesopotamian priests, including sacrifice of animals, fruit, and even beer!
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Mayan Temples
http://www.maya-art-books.org/html/New_photos.html
http://www.locogringo.com/past_spotlights/apr2002.html
Place where priests carried out ritual human sacrifices of virgins, children or prisoners before throwing down the bodies
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The Forbidden City, Beijinght
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The Forbidden City, Beijing (1420 AD)
An administrative and ceremonial center off limits to ordinary Chinese
http://www.chinavista.com/beijing/gugong/!start.html
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“Teotihuacan” (Mexico)
Emerged as urban center around 0 AD
Lasted for more than 600 years
Influenced most of Mesoamerica
60-80,000 inhabitants
Apartment buildings, wide avenues, huge pyramids
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“Avenue of the Dead,” Teotihuacan
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Architectural Detail, Teotihuacan
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Karl Wittfogel’s hydraulic civilization model
Semi-arid river valleys of Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus and the Yellow River all “rewarded” irrigationTo achieve effective irrigation required coordination of crews to dig canals, clear waterways, keep track of field boundaries, etc.Cities grew in these areas because the environment enabled city building and constrained population growth in the absence of social organization
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Karl Wittfogel’s hydraulic civilization model
Agricultural surplus fed non-farmers, making labor specialization possible
Tool-makersLaborersFarmers“engineers”Record keepers (scribes)Supreme leader (Pharaoh)
Did this encourage the rise of despotic leaders as part of the political culture in these area, as Wittfogel argues?
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In shortThe origins of the city suggest what the city became:
A place of specialized roles, knowledge and creativityHuman endeavors from religion to engineering and everything in betweenA particular kind of culture “urbanism”
The earliest cities had elements that most cities no longer have
Defensive perimeter (wall)Citadel: religious and governmental buildings clustered togetherLayout reflecting spatial symbolism of a “cosmo-magical order”