God ordains universalist ethics/tribalist society. Homogenous nations allow the faithful to buoy one another up. Cities prevent that
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Replying to @InaneImperium
Cities don't prevent that--have you seen Japan lately?
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Replying to @380kmh
True. But you agree all else equal, cities become trade hubs, bring in merchants and migrants, and thus demon-worshipping cultures?
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Replying to @InaneImperium
Other way around Trade hubs become cities; they are founded on mercantile activity--thus, capitalist
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Replying to @380kmh
I'll try to remember to tag you if/when I put up a post about this. I think it happens both ways. Large conglomerations of people...
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Replying to @InaneImperium @380kmh
... REQUIRE long-distance trade of some type. Cities are very rarely self-supporting wrt natural resources, but conversely provide--
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Replying to @InaneImperium @380kmh
...irresistible markets to anyone with a surplus that can't be liquidated in a sparsely populated rural economy.
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Replying to @InaneImperium
yes, this is how they work cities are founded on, and live and die by, trade--inherently commercial
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Replying to @380kmh
Great, glad we agree. But nb even where, say, Puritans found Boston just for defense/administration/fishing, trade comes anyway.
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Replying to @InaneImperium
right--but notice how many cities founded for defense/admin never become *cities* in that sense? a lot just stay tiny
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Boston flourished not because of its founding purpose, but because it became THE hub of trade for all New England
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