PORTABLE REAL ESTATE No more mass population movements to find a new homeland. Just pick up your homeland and move it somewhere else. Too crowded? Build add-ons to your homeland. There's always more space rocks.
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Why is a city valuable Because it's got infrastructure and people If all of those things were mobile, its value would not be tied to it's location
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why did people go there and not somewhere else why did infrastructure get built there and not somewhere else you're not thinking about this question as seriously as you should be: why ARE cities valuable?
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access to water ways prior to the advent of stage coach and rail
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Even after, waterways have been invaluable.
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every major city is built on a harbor or navigable river
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are you even fucking trying right now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing
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wow three rivers which only fell within "Beijing municipality" when the CCP redefined that area to encompass some 6,400 square miles of land, largely rural and well outside the historic confines of the city
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And nobody bothered to conquer it even though millions of rape-monsters rode out on horseback every few generations.
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lmao if you take a close look at the history of China and Mongolia you find that China raided Mongolia at least as often--if not more often--than the reverse why conquer when you can just plunder at will?
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idk it was pretty hard on Khwarizm
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