Download The Urban Revolution - Geography - Lecture Slides and more Slides Geology in PDF only on Docsity! Lecture 8 : The Urban Revolution Overview THE URBAN REVOLUTION – Developments in technology, society etc. – Health and disease EMPIRES ANCIENT GREECE – Outline history – The Plague of Athens Docsity.com The Urban Revolution • Technology - wheel, plough, fertiliser, irrigation. • Metalurgy – copper, bronze (copper+tin), iron • Food surplus – division of labour (craftsmen, traders). • Towns and cities. • Stratified class system – administrative/military elite. • Religion and science (writing, mathematics, astronomy). • Arts and culture. • Farmers converted to peasants. • Civilisation has always had a dark side: wealth and refinement goes hand in hand with exploitation. Docsity.com
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