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  2. History of cities - Wikipedia

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    Towns and cities have a long history, although opinions vary on which ancient settlements are truly cities. The benefits of dense settlement included reduced transport costs, exchange of ideas, sharing of natural resources, large local markets, wider selection of potential mates, and in some cases amenities such as running water and sewerage .

  3. National Council of Educational Research and Training

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    [26] [27] Again in 2022, a new controversy started when both CBSE and NCERT removed topics regarding Islamic Empires in the class 12 history textbook and chapters like “Challenges to Democracy” in the class 10 political science subject and many others, saying it is necessary to reduce syllabus to reduce examination pressure on students by ...

  4. NCERT textbook controversies - Wikipedia

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    NCERT's director Hrushikesh Senapaty highlighted that students must have time to engage outdoor. The syllabus of Social Sciences, which covers History, Geography, Political Science, and Economics, had 24 chapters in Class IX as compared to 15 each in Science and Mathematics. Similarly, Class X Social Sciences had 28 chapters as compared to 16 ...

  5. Urban science - Wikipedia

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    Urban science is an interdisciplinary field that studies diverse urban issues and problems. Based on research findings of various disciplines such as history, economics, sociology, administration, architecture, urban engineering, transportation engineering, landscape architecture, environmental engineering, and geo-informatics, it aims to produce both theoretical and practical knowledge that ...

  6. List of largest cities throughout history - Wikipedia

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    This article lists the largest human settlements in the world (by population) over time, as estimated by historians, from 7000 BC when the largest human settlement was a proto-city in the ancient Near East with a population of about 1,000–2,000 people, to the year 2000 when the largest human settlement was Tokyo with 26 million.

  7. Urban revolution - Wikipedia

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    Although contemporary models for the origins of complex urban societies have progressed beyond Childe's original formulation, [4] [5] there is general agreement [citation needed] that he correctly identified one of the most far-reaching social transformations [6] prior to the Industrial Revolution, as well as the major processes involved in the ...

  8. Urban studies - Wikipedia

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    This includes studying the history of city development from an architectural point of view, to the impact of urban design on community development efforts. [ 1 ] Urban studies is a major field of study used by practitioners of urban planning, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] it helps with the understanding of human values, development, and the interactions they ...

  9. Non-cooperation movement (1919–1922) - Wikipedia

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    The non-cooperation movement was among the broader movement for Indian independence from British rule [10] and ended, as Nehru described in his autobiography, "suddenly" on 4 February 1922 after the Chauri Chaura incident. [11] Subsequent independence movements were the Civil Disobedience Movement and the Quit India Movement. [10]