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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It’s obviously less common these days for new towns and villages to just pop up but in the past, villages “spawned” near points of importance. Maybe a mine, a port, grasslands for the animals to feed etc.
Settlers would move out from established villages in search for more resources like the above. When they found them they would start using those resources and transferring them to the established village. Then they would build more amenities near the resource to be more efficient. Maybe build a blacksmith near the mine so miners can repair their tools. Then someone selling food to the miners. Then haircuts, clothes, alcohol, entertainment and so on.
Since now our town has all the services and the shop owners probably already live above their shops, more people come in to open their own shops and businesses since there is an untapped community. And before you know it, you have a small little village. Then that grows into a town and so on.
Now some restless settlers see opportunity in the nearby forrest where they can collect lumber from and they start the whole process there from the beginning
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