be my guest, but I never argued that those don't exist--only that navigable waterways and harbors are not prerequisites for cities
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Replying to @380kmh @JesseLucasSaga and
I said "major" cities for a reason.
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Replying to @GolfNorman @JesseLucasSaga and
Not prerequisites for major cities, then
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Replying to @380kmh @JesseLucasSaga and
I'll add the caveat that the city must have been established as an influential population center PRIOR to the advent of Rail, Automobile, or Air transport.
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Replying to @GolfNorman @JesseLucasSaga and
No kidding; seaports became considerably more valuable after railways came along--before that, major cities favored rivers for water access (ocean access wasn't rare, of course, just less common)
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Replying to @380kmh @JesseLucasSaga and
I am tired of making this list already..pic.twitter.com/l0KTDtQMLY
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Replying to @GolfNorman @JesseLucasSaga and
Damascus and Aleppo, two of the oldest on the planet, have no navigable rivers or seaports. Also lol @ LA, since they didn't have one either until massive civil engineering works made them one (well away from downtown)
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Replying to @380kmh @GolfNorman and
I forgot who said it--something about "you should've built a city where God put a harbor instead of having the government make one for you"
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Replying to @380kmh @GolfNorman and
Milan, older than Rome, is a full day's walk away from any major rivers (the Po). Persepolis and Jerusalem had no ports or navigable rivers.
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Replying to @380kmh @GolfNorman and
Baltimore is another fun inclusion: why did they put it on a dead-end harbor instead of at the mouth of the Susquehanna? This created a lot of interior access problems until railways were invented--ditto for Boston and the Merrimack
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On that note--isn't it weird that New Haven is nowhere near the mouth of the Connecticut? Even tho Hartford is on the river...people had to go overland between them, eventually building canals, but no better location rose to prominence over NH
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