First Day Back

city- a conglomeration of people and buildings clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture and economics

urban: the buildup of the central city and the suburban realm- the city and the surrounding environment connected to the city

• Urban areas are the most common place to live 
• A rural area can become urbanized quite quickly in the modern world 

The First Urban Revolution 

• Before any urbanization people clustered in agricultural villages

- a small village where most the the villagers are involved with agriculture. About 10,000 years ago people began living in agricultural villages.