I understand how a village grows into a town and a town into a city, etc, but I can’t find an understandable answer to how the whole process begins initially. Do a group of people just form a contract and agree to share responsibilities? Who gives up the land? Perhaps it was easier to understand when there was more available land? Any help understanding how the whole ball gets rolling would be much appreciated.
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My hometown was started by a group of people likely about 7000 years ago who found a good fishing spot next to a big river, good source of clay next to it, and plenty of woods around to use for fuel/hunting. From there, other folks came by and continued on. There were certainly other locations around that started as villages/family/clan homesteads, some of which survived longer or shorter. And there’s also sign that less settled peoples sometimes stayed because it made more sense than roaming around with the seasons because the location is well protected and the river is big enough to rarely completely ice over even then.
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