In this universe, time is the monster machine because it has a very strong power, “time will change will everything”, and it will not stop by anything or anyone. You will see this principle applies for the worlds I try to bring up to you today, Megalopolis and Megacity. What are Megalopolis and Megacity mean? Are these words the same? Where do they come from and how their definition is changing over time? You will find the answer as you going through the essay. According to Greece, in the ancient time 370 BC, Megalopolis was the city found in Arcadia in Arkadia in the Peloponnese region of Greece. With the ancient Greece, this word was used to name the city, and Megalopolis was meaning the “great city or large city”. It was also an ancient theater. Over the name and meaning of Megalopolis, I feel like the ancient people in general and specific Greeks used this word to show the out side people their nation is very powerful and wealthy. Megalopolis city was the good sign, where people would have high quality of life, a lot of opportunity for jobs, and under high …show more content…
were build near the river or ocean. This could bring to their city a lot of advantages. In the early year, of course people didn’t have railroad, freeway or airplane, so the water surface was very important for transportation, communicate with the other city, food source such as fish, and defense purpose… Before 500BC, the most transportations of human were horses, wagon, chariot or boat, and the fastest and easiest way to go to one place to another was boat. The ancient people were used water surface as the source for import, export goods around their region and develop the economic of their city. They also used the water to defense or invade other city by built up the strong navy. Water connects to people live through out the history, and it is the source for lot of Megacities develop in the ancient time until
This adds up to cosmopolitanism: Athens is world class city, with, as the old guy grumbles, every known language audible to the Athenians, making their speech "a hotch-potch of all those Greeks and foreigners..." (II, 8). These are the ingredients for both wealth and humanistic triumph, and a setting in which anything is possible, for good or ill.
The need for a steady supply of water affected the technological developments of ancient societies in a number of ways. The first is that it affected the placement and structure of ancient cities and structures as shown in Source 8 (44), 9 (45), and 11 (46). Source 8, Sima Qian’s Description of the Building of the Zhengguo Canal, ca. 100 B.C.E., discusses the rivalry between the Han and the Chinn, which were both located along the Ching River for easy access to water. Source 9, Suetonius’s Description of the Water Projects Undertaken by Emperor Claudius (r. 41-54 C.E.), talks of how Claudius filled his city with water by using an aqueduct and making a drainage canal, completely modifying the city and the usage of water in it. Source 11, Frontinus’s Discussion of Rome’s Water System, tells of making extraordinarily high arches to get water to the upper parts of Rome so that the rich districts could simplify the process of getting water. Next is that it caused larger and more complex structures to be built which we can see by comparing different sources, for example Source 3 (43) and Source 6 (43) the technological advancement is easily seen, the Shaduf only allowed on...
geography. Since the times of Ramses II to the present day canal, waterways have been
One of the biggest needs for a civilisation is food, transportation, and crops/plants. Done, done and done with all their rivers. Stated in Document 2, “They provided many resources which included food, transportation, as well as plants.” That all came from the rivers they had, like the Nile River.. Also, stated in document 1, “the Nile provided a fertile area in the middle of a desert.” so they needed it for crops.
The Tigris and Euphrates river played a big role in development for a numerous amount of reasons. Being in the middle of a Dessert, water is going to be very limited and water has so many different uses. Water can serve as a cleaning source,
Water is one of the most important elements needed to sustain life. Some ancient civilizations struggled to maintain a steady supply of usable water, while others gained consistent access, and those that did, thrived. Nonetheless, these civilizations, whether they failed or succeeded, depended on water to drink and irritate their crops; without it, they suffered food shortages and famine. Ancient civilizations such as China, Egypt, Mesopotamia and Rome were among those whose advancement benefited from the successful cultivation of water. Even though man started out as hunters and gatherers, once knowledge about growing their own food and the domestication of plants occurred, civilizations are believed to have formed, and thus became dependent on agriculture and water. Water was the driving force of growth in ancient civilizations. A reliable source of water impacted the development of economies, drove religious views, shaped political and legal discussions and influenced the advancement of technologies in diverse civilizations that shared a common bond, the need for water to sustain life.
Cities by John Reader, the acclaimed historian attempts to dive readers deep into the territory of urban historians, depicting and analyzing the greatest cities of planet earth. From the earliest examples of cities to the ultra modern cities, 7000-9000 years later, of Mumbai or Tokyo, Reader paints the picture loud and clear. Cities around the globe are home to half of the entire planets population! Those living in cities, consume nearly 75% of all natural resources in the entire world. From the ruins of the earliest cities to the present, Reader will explore how cities develop and thrive, how they can decline and die, how they remake themselves. In the beginning of chapter two, Reader states, “The first cities are said to have arisen from rural communities whose intensified farming practices produced surpluses large enough to free craft workers and other specialists from working on the land (Reader 10).” With that being said, the first cities were basically an intensification of agriculture. He starts with extreme detail describing the “oldest-known cities” from around 9000 years ago. Starting with the claimed first city Çatal Hüyük. This was a large Turkish neolithic site, has been described as the world's first city. Stretching back over 9000 years, at times up to 10,000 people might have lived there. As Reader stated, the site was discovered in 1958 by the British archaeologist James Mellaart. He was unsure in categorizing Catal Huyuk as a city or a town. From what we think as of a city today, like New York or Paris, classifying Catal Huyuk as a city can be difficult. Catal Huyuk was a settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5700 BC. Certainly it is a site of immense historic and social...
A metropolitan area and a megaregion both arch over many people and communities, but they are two very different entities. A Metropolitan area as defined by the federal government is an area that reaches across urban communities and a city, which also has 50,000 people or more living there. A Megaregion in contrast is an area that arches over multiple cities, urban communities, counties, and sometimes even states. A megaregion is essentially multiple metropolitan areas all bunched together. The difference between these two types of areas can be seen when examine the governments in each. In a Metropolitan areas coordinating policies ion things like transportation can be difficult because of the many layers of government in the region. A Megaregion experiences those same issues on an exponentially larger scale. Sometimes hundreds or thousands of jurisdictions overlap creating conflict and little to no organization and coordination. The mere difference in overlaps of governments makes a significant difference between a metropolitan area and a
Approximately 5500 years ago four of the worlds' most prestigious ancient river civilizations had emerged. Our world has been left in astonishment and awe wondering how these civilizations were developed. Egypt and Mesopotamia were the first ancient river civilizations to create cities and their own ways of living. Society, geography, and religion played an enormous role in the development of the ancient cities. Although there is evidence of early Sumerian contact with the Egyptians, Egypt's civilization was largely self-generated and its history and cultural patterns differed from Mesopotamia.
great city vividly. It can also be seen to be used as a symbolic map
Long ago in the land of Greece, an ordinary town of Olympia was once existed. Olympia had a perfect location at the foot of Mount Olympus, where the gods oversee the townspeople. Every part of the town was picturesque with beautiful, fragrant flowers and trees. There were many forests and tons of astounding life everywhere. The nature and life of the land were ruled by Zofea.
The Nile River is arguably one of the most important water sources in the world and has an extremely rich history dating back thousands of years. Without the Nile, the ancient Egyptian civilization would have never existed. Egypt is basically a whole lot of sand and not much else, except they have the Nile River flowing through it, on it’s way to the Mediterranean sea. The ancient Egyptians lived along the Nile River and it provided them with abundant water, food (fish) and the opportunity to develop agriculture along it’s banks. The Nile River was also used for transportation and trade with other regions because land travel was more difficult than floating on the river. The Ancient Egyptians were at the mercy of the seasonal flooding and droughts but learned to work within the natural system of the River and weather cycles (Carnegie Museum of Natural History). Modern people, however were more interested in conquering nature, rather than living in harmony with it.
This paper will discuss about the development of megacities in general, starting with an introduction and then followed by the definition of development and megacity. After that, there will be elaboration of the development of megacities and continue with a section entitled how megacities develop and a brief point about challenges of development of megacities. Finally the paper will reach a study case of the development of Jakarta as a developing-country megacity and ended with a conclusion.
Ancient civilizations were positioned where they were for a reason, to make use of the resources that were in those places. You may notice that most ancient civilizations didn’t settle in the desert or in the middle of nowhere they settled in places where they had resources natural, capital and human. Ancient civilizations mainly looked for a lot of natural resources when looking for a place to settle. If you look at maps showing where ancient civilizations settled you will see that it was mainly around a big body of water. Water is a natural resource that is vital to all life so settling near water gave these civilizations many necessary things such as hydration, transportation, and cleanliness.
Another famous city in Greece is it’s capital, Athens. It was named in honor of the greek goddess Athena, goddess of wisdom and war. It was the birthplace of civilization, where democracy was first created, and most of the wise men of ancient times (10...