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Welcome to the History of the World Podcast. My name is Chris. This is episode 21 The First Towns. Oh, In the last few podcasts and especially in the recent podcasts regarding megaliths, we recognize

the requirement for human cooperation on a huge scale being required in order to make success of the works required.

Stonehenge could not have been built unless everyone involved, cooperated and understood the benefits to their society of their

cumulative action.

As Neolithic villages expanded and populations grew.

It was necessary to cultivate more crops and livestock to be able to feed the growing population.

It was absolutely necessary for there to be a good water source such as a river nearby.

However, such was the demands of the rivers that humans had to consider a way of altering their settlements

to enable them to be able to keep the waters of the river under control.

Rivers don't necessarily do what you want them to do.

Sometimes they dry up.

Sometimes they flood.

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