The First Cities Were NOT Supposed to Exist: What Forced Humans to Settle? | History for Sleep

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What if the very first cities were a terrible idea… and people
knew it?





In this Sleepy Time History episode, we drift back 12,000 years
to a world with no buildings, no streets, and no walls. You’ll
explore how nomadic hunter-gatherers, who may have lived
healthier and freer lives, were somehow pushed into building the
first villages, towns, and cities.





Why did humans settle down if it meant more work, more disease,
and shorter lives? What invisible pressures – climate,
population, food, or something else – could have forced our
ancestors to stay in one place across the Middle East, China, the
Americas, and beyond?





Lie back as we slowly unravel one of the biggest mysteries in
human history: how the agricultural revolution, early farming,
and the rise of civilization truly began. This calm,
narration-driven story is designed to help you relax, fall
asleep, and still feed your curiosity about ancient history,
anthropology, and the origins of cities.





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Chapters:





Sources:


- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity — David
Graeber and David Wengrow


- Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States —
James C. Scott


- The Neolithic Revolution and the Origins of Sedentism: An
Introduction — Ofer Bar-Yosef


- The Origins and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in
Eurasia — edited by David R. Harris


- The Emergence of Civilisation: The Cyclades and the Aegean in
the Third Millennium BC — Colin Renfrew





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