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Archaeologists often explain urban collapse in terms of climate change, overpopulation, social pressures.
But scientists have added a new hypothesis to the mix: disease.
Living closely with animals led to zoonotic diseases that came to infect humans.
Outbreaks could have led dense settlements to be abandoned, at least until later generations found a way to organize their settlement layout to be more resilient to disease.
The first cities in Mesopotamia developed around 3500 BCE , with others soon developing in Egypt , the Indus Valley and China .
Early cities, along with those in China , Africa and the Americas , were the foundations of civilization.
Some geneticists speculate that Trypillia settlements were abandoned due to the origins of plague in the region.
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