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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4764264" data-attributes="member: 54707">I was just teasing a bit about Dartmouth College Jurgen.But a lot of the older American cities, like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" target="_blank">Gotham</a> (New Amsterdam), once a name for the Dutch section of New York, have really interesting histories. (I'm not one who is much for Wikipedia references, but it at least gives a general overview.)The same is true for some American frontier cities, like Chicago, which started out as a trading post.These places don't have histories nearly as long or interesting as say London, but then again they are extremely interesting because they have had a lot to happen in a short period of time. Mainly due to large influxes of different immigration waves (of population) and because of heavy trade and finance. Which would eventually lead to a heavy criminal element, like Chicago. Probably trader and merchant gangs as well.(In my setting by the way dwarves are often merchants, traders, in banking, finance, and commodities, business, and academics. But what I'm saying is that such a city would invite such people in waves from many different places.) When I read about your Dartmouth I thought of Gotham, and New York. How it would be very likely to undergo wave after wave of immigration due to the interest in trade which invites large numbers of immigrants, foreigners, and merchants.I can also easily imagine such a city as you describe developing a strong university/academic center, and alliances with far stronger (militarily) states that they help support financially and that in turn help defend and protect their banking and finance center. An alliance/mercenary army and naval system such as occurred with many of the old Italian City Sates.As for the history of <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/home/about/history.html" target="_blank">Dartmouth College</a>.Good luck.</blockquote>

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