I’ve been on a bit of a human history journey here lately, basically just jumping around various dates and eras to see what we know about the people of the time.
What occurs to me and what I haven’t come across yet, is how do towns and cities even get started? If I have come across that, I didn’t rightly understand what I was reading.
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We can only speculate how cities like Sumeria were originally settled. But I think the American West is a good microcosm of the process.
The American government more or less just told settlers “if you build a farm out west, the land it’s on is yours”. So that’s what settlers did. Now all these people live in the middle of no where, living off the land, but they still want to trade for things amongst each other. So every few days, they would meet and trade and talk and pray and whatever else they needed to do. Typically, this was located wherever the local church decided to set up, because everyone had to go there every Sunday anyway. Eventually, some settlers who did something other than farm would arrive, and they would set up shop at that meeting place, because that’s where the trade is. More and more of those non-farmers would show up, trade with each other, and attract more people. And before you know it you have a town.
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