About this deck
A city of brick and clay rising from the floodplain — where civilization first learned to scale. Key sections include: GREAT CITIES / ten that changed history; Babylon circa 1800 BC · Tigris-Euphrates; Athens circa 500 BC · Golden Age; Rome circa 100 AD · Imperial Apex; Constantinople 330 AD — 1453 / Istanbul thereafter; Chang'an 7th – 9th century AD · modern Xi'an; Florence 1400s · Medici Florence; Venice c. 1000 – 1797 · Maritime Republic; Paris 1789 · 1871 · 1968; London 19th century · capital of empire.
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