Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas to be as high as 112 million in 1492, while others estimate the population to have been as low as eight million. In any case, the native population declined to less than six million by 1650.
I believe there is a book on the matter as well. Good luck. :)
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Anyang, another Shang capital, also in modern-day Henan Province, is another important—but slightly later—Shang city that has been excavated. It was located at the intersection between lowland agricultural areas of the North China Plain and mountains which acted as a defensive border.
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Indus river (India): Harappa And the city of Mohenjo-daro
Nile river (Egypt): Ancient egyptian pryramid structures, obelisks, System of mathmatics, Medicine development, etc.
Huang he (China): The great wall of china build, development of budda religion, growing rice products.
Tigris-Euphrates (Mesopotamia): The wheel, plow tool, and cut canals and river connections.
First of all, the passage mentions street children by saying "children pitching pennies" and "kicks and cuffs are their daily diet". Also, pollution is touched in this passage as it mentions "summer stenches" which are bad smells that come because of urbanization and the drains that have foul smells (hence they mention "sink"). We also see how neighborhood noises and noisy people from all around the area show up in urbanized areas because of cramped spaces. Hence, quarreling is mentioned here as well as instances of profanity.
