History Cont'd
Cities
In
week one you did a freewrite and list exercise with cities. In week two you
looked at building habitat with its legends and history and landmarks. Here you
pull them together to decide which cities in your world are to have prominence,
based on history then and history now.
Choose
three cities: one modern, one middle-aged, and one ancient within your world’s
timeline. What is the key historical focus of each city/town? If it lost its
prominence—why? Was it once a major seaport and is now a land-locked desert?
Another
approach is to look at the ‘ghost towns’ of your country. Were they bustling
towns based on gold or another mineral and when they dried up everyone left? Or
perhaps a new form of transportation made a once major city obsolete, like the
railroads did in many countries as they bypassed some well known towns for others. In what areas did a population leave due to changes, such as many stage-coach routes lost their livelihood when the railroads took over.
Share: Which historical focus gave the strongest emotional
connection?
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