How did the increase of urbanization affect the global landscape in the eighteenth century?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Effects of urbanization
1. urbanization increased over most of Eurasia and the Americas
2. China, India, and Japan housed the most urbanized societies
a. 6 percent of Japanese living in urban concentrations of over 100,000
inhabitants
b. urban centers of China had as many people as all the capitals of
Western Europe put together
3. Europe also experienced intensified urbanization
a. London approached a million inhabitants by the beginning of the
nineteenth century
b. Paris at the same time had over 500,000 inhabitants
c. Moscow, Vienna, and Amsterdam each exceeded 200,000 people
4. a third of the population of Spanish America lived in settlements officially
classed as towns or cities
a. Mexico City and Lima, Peru, were colonial capitals able to compete in
splendor with most cities of Europe
5. British North America had towns of respectable size by the end of the
eighteenth century
a. 15,000 people in Boston, 12,000 in Philadelphia and in New York
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