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Athens
Greece · 37.98, 23.73
The Attic city whose reforms of 508 BCE gave the world the word democracy.
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Rome
Italy · 41.90, 12.50
From hilltop settlement to the administrative heart of a Mediterranean empire.
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Constantinople
Istanbul, Türkiye · 41.01, 28.98
The Queen of Cities, guarded by the Theodosian Walls for a thousand years.
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Giza
Egypt · 29.98, 31.13
The Old Kingdom necropolis and its three great pyramids.
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Alexandria
Egypt · 31.20, 29.92
Hellenistic port and seat of the ancient world's most famous library.
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Olympia
Greece · 37.64, 21.63
Sanctuary of Zeus and site of the quadrennial games from 776 BCE.
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Babylon
Iraq · 32.54, 44.42
Mesopotamian capital of Hammurabi's law and Nebuchadnezzar's walls.
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Chang'an
Xi'an, China · 34.34, 108.94
Eastern terminus of the Silk Road and Tang imperial capital.
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Samarkand
Uzbekistan · 39.63, 66.97
Oasis city at the crossroads of the Eurasian trade routes.
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Florence
Italy · 43.77, 11.26
Banking republic that financed the Italian Renaissance.
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Paris
France · 48.86, 2.35
Capital of revolution, barricades, and the modern political vocabulary.
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Manchester
United Kingdom · 53.48, -2.24
Cottonopolis — the first industrial city of the modern world.
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Wittenberg
Germany · 51.87, 12.65
University town where the Reformation found its printing press.
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Tenochtitlan
Mexico City, Mexico · 19.43, -99.13
Island capital of the Mexica, laid out on causeways across Lake Texcoco.
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Cape Canaveral
United States · 28.39, -80.61
Launch coast of the twentieth century's exit from Earth.
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