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proof humans have always preferred living in each other's business.
means early large, permanent settlements where people organized government, trade, religion, and plumbing before any of it had a name.
from the word city traces to latin civitas, meaning citizenship or community, but the thing itself predates the word by millennia, starting with settlements like catalhoyuk and uruk around 7500 and 4500 bce.
uruk populationroughly 50,000 people by 2900 bce
catalhoyuk layoutno streets, people walked across rooftops
mohenjo daro plumbinghad covered drains before rome existed
oldest known law codecame from the city of ur