Historical record · Urban worlds
Cities
Walk through settlements that concentrated culture, trade, and invention.
Primary topic: Places
Explore the interactive road →Scope of this guide
A curated selection of milestones, not a complete history or a claim that every step is a direct ancestor of the next. Earlier reading-path context is separate from the chapters selected for this subject.
Actual source-review status
0 completed · 0 partial · 6 pending chapter reviews in this subject.
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Key chapters
- c. 9,000 BCE
Jericho →
A settlement endures near a desert spring.
Full chapter source review pending. Confidence labels are editorial assessments. - 762 CE
Baghdad →
A new capital becomes a center of learning.
Full chapter source review pending. Confidence labels are editorial assessments. - c. 2007–2008 CE
An urban planet →
Humanity approaches a majority living in urban areas.
Full chapter source review pending. Confidence labels are editorial assessments.
Connected roads
These are authored connections in the existing catalogue, not an automatically inferred family tree.
Earlier reading context: The Human Story · The agricultural turn. A reading-path prefix is not itself an ancestry claim.
- See the rise of writing (related topic) · Subject guide
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Sources
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