What are the main differences between Neolithic villages and early urban societies such as found in Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Egypt. What do you think are the most significant differences and why? How did these differences help shape the development of what we term world "civilizations"? By using the term civilization, what cultures or peoples get left out of the historical narrative? Is this omission fair?

Between about 8000 and 3500 B.C. some Neolithic villages had developed into small cities of a few thousand people. Since these first cities appeared, people have built cities for many reasons. The cities have differed in size and layout, and they have had a variety of economic, governmental, and social systems. But all permanent settlements--from Neolithic village to giant city--needed four main features to begin and to grow.
These features were:-.
(1) advances in technology,
(2) a favorable physical environment,
(3) social organization, and
(4) population growth.