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<blockquote data-quote="CCamfield" data-source="post: 1289588" data-attributes="member: 8123"><p>There might not be a foreigners' district. Depending on how structured the society is, individual foreigners might be welcome to settle down in the city but, not being singled out as foreigners, might be spread throughout it. Or, the Assyrians tended to build trading enclaves outside of foreign cities, for the representatives of their merchant houses to live in. Powerful foreigners might live in a nearby mini-town.</p><p></p><p>I suspect in a Bronze Age city there'd be a less specialization in trades. So you might not have, say, a jewellers' street; there might be just a few people who work in jewelry. Instead of armourers, the blacksmiths might also make armour. And so on.</p><p></p><p>Houses of the common people probably share walls and are pretty small. Town planning was much less common, so instead of a nice grid, roads and streets would be more haphazard.</p><p></p><p>The impression I've got from reading a bit of ancient Near Eastern history is that cities in Mesopotamia tended to have one god who was responsible for the welfare of the city. So one city might have a patron goddess of warfare, while another has a patron god who is the god of healing and music. Rulers justified their position as having been granted by the gods, so the temple and palace are probably pretty chummy. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CCamfield, post: 1289588, member: 8123"] There might not be a foreigners' district. Depending on how structured the society is, individual foreigners might be welcome to settle down in the city but, not being singled out as foreigners, might be spread throughout it. Or, the Assyrians tended to build trading enclaves outside of foreign cities, for the representatives of their merchant houses to live in. Powerful foreigners might live in a nearby mini-town. I suspect in a Bronze Age city there'd be a less specialization in trades. So you might not have, say, a jewellers' street; there might be just a few people who work in jewelry. Instead of armourers, the blacksmiths might also make armour. And so on. Houses of the common people probably share walls and are pretty small. Town planning was much less common, so instead of a nice grid, roads and streets would be more haphazard. The impression I've got from reading a bit of ancient Near Eastern history is that cities in Mesopotamia tended to have one god who was responsible for the welfare of the city. So one city might have a patron goddess of warfare, while another has a patron god who is the god of healing and music. Rulers justified their position as having been granted by the gods, so the temple and palace are probably pretty chummy. :) [/QUOTE]
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