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By Rebecca Storey

Cities arose independently in either the outdated international and within the pre-Columbian New global. missing written documents, a lot of those New international towns might be studied merely via archaeology, together with the earliest pre-Columbian urban, Teotihuacan, Mexico, one of many biggest towns of its time (150 B.C. to A.D. 750). therefore, a massive query is how comparable New international towns are to their outdated global counterparts.

Before fresh instances, the dense populations of towns made them dangerous locations as a result of negative sanitation and insufficient nutrients provides. Storey's examine exhibits truly that even supposing Teotihuacan used to be a really diverse surroundings and tradition from 17th-century London, those nice towns are related by way of illnesses and comparable dying rates.

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