Rome & Greece Urban Areas

Today in class we started taking more note on the Urban Geography powerpoint. We learned about about urban areas in Greece in 500BCE & that they were highly urbanized. They had more than 500 cities and towns with each city having an acropolis and an agora. And the Roman urban areas had small cities and towns linked together within miles from each other. Roman cities were typically for trade and Rome at the same time had both wealth and poverty