Transcript Cities and their hinterlands

Cities and their hinterlands
Urban-rural interactions
Definitions
Hinterland can refer to the rural area economically tied to the urban
catchment of large cities or agglomerations
The city can be considered as a nexus of social and political
relationships that forms the heart of larger social and political
networks
City-states with a city and dependent territories, considerable part of
the population living in the city for greater protection
Territorial states with multiple centers inhabited by a smaller part of
the population and a large part of the population living in the
countryside
The Old World
Hittites
Syro-Hittites
Diyala hinterland
Mesopotamia’s heartland
Cities and their harbors
City-states
of Sumer
Syro-Hittite
city-states
Greek city-states
Southern Mesopotamian delta plain
River levees
Robert McCormick Adams
Land Behind Baghdad.
A History of Settlement
on the Diyala Plain
(1965)
The Evolution of
Urban Society: Early
Mesopotamia and
Prehispanic Mexico
(1966)
The Uruk Countryside. The Heartland of Cities.
Natural Setting of Urban Surveys of Ancient
Societies (1972, with
Settlement and Land
H.J.Nissen)
Use on the Central
Floodplain of the
Euphrates (1981)
Tells
Western highland Mesoamerica
Eastern lowland Mesoamerica