#THOCS2E6 - CITIES AND CITIZENS

FOUNDED CITIES: Cairo, Alexandria, Barcelona, ​​Paris, Zurich, Cologne, Cartagena, Valencia, Cholula, Taiyuan, Nanjing, Liaoyang, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Pyeongyang, Gyeongju.
 
LARGEST CITY IN THE WORLD: Babylon - Iraq (479 BC), Xiadu - China (400 BC), Alexandria - Egypt (320 BC), Carthage - Tunisia (300 BC), Pataliputra - India (206 BC), Alexandria - Egypt (200 AC), Chang'an - China (100 BC), Rome - Italy (25 BC).

IMPORTANT PEOPLE:

The ancient Greeks are credited with the invention of the street, bolt, crane, spiral staircase, urban planning, winch, shower, lighthouse, water wheel, cannon, odometer, water mill, topography tools, philosophy, politics, education, fire hose, vending machine, automatic doors, weather vane and more.

Lu Ban, engineer and inventor
Calicrates, architect
Miletus Hippodamus, architect
Ictinus, architect
Mnesikles, architect
Ximen Bao, hydraulic engineer
Archimedes, mathematician, physicist and engineer
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, architect and engineer
Ji Jiu Pian, hydraulic engineer
Eratosthenes, mathematician, geographer and astronomer
Euclid, the geometer
Phylum of Byzantium, mechanical
Ctesibius, an engineer
Palamidis of Nafplio, invented the first lighthouse,
Cnidus sostratus, Greek architect and engineer. Designed the Alexandria Lighthouse
Carés de Lindos, sculptor

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