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Since WW2, the story of humanity has increasingly been the story of the top 100 or so charismatic big cities. The ones that can each lay claim to an important subplot of the human story. Not necessarily the biggest ones but the ones that you instantly associate with a big story.
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But the rural countryside existed to be ruled by the cities. The Mediterranean was a story of Rome and Carthage, and then Rome and a few Greek city-states, and then just Rome. Rome was fed by Sicily and Egypt, but Rome controlled the narrative.
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