earlycities
nounUK /ˈɜːli ˈsɪtiz/
US /ˈɜrli ˈsɪtiz/
Early cities are the first big towns that people built long ago.
Early cities grew up beside rivers where there was water for farming.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. The oldest known urban centers in human history, such as Uruk and Mohenjo-daro.
Historians study early cities to learn how people first lived together in large groups.
3. Towns that developed at the beginning of a region's history.
The early cities of the Nile Valley depended on the river's yearly floods.
4. The first stages of city life in a place, before modern growth.
Trade routes helped early cities connect with distant lands.