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Module 2: Origin of city in history

Lecture 5: History of Urbanization in India

Pre-Modern Urbanization ²

Region	Location	Approximate date
Mesopotamia	Tigris and Euphrates Rivers	3900 BC
Egypt	Nile River Valley	3200 BC
India	Indus River Valley	2400 BC
Eastern Mediterranean	Create	1600 BC
China	Yellow River Valley	1600 BC
Mexico	Yucatan Peninsula	200 BC

²Gottdiener and Hutchison, 2006 p. 22