1. CITIES IN WORLD HISTORY Urban planning and monumental architecture

2. Thinking about Contextualization  Can local be global?  How does this city demonstrate the role cities played as centers of trade, through religious rituals, and in political administration?  How does monumental architecture lend to its legitimacy as seen by the people in the empire or region?  What else do we need to know (context) in order to see the role the city played economically and socially?

3. Persepolis

4. Chang’an (present day Xi’an) http://history.cultural-china.com/en/183History6233.html

5. Pataliputra

6. Athens

7. Carthage

8. Rome

9. Alexandria

10. Constantinople

11. Teotihuacan

12. Conclusions?

13. Recommended Reading:  Urban Planning in the Classical Age (on CD) from Reilly, old ed.