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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 2455643" data-attributes="member: 7240">That's a great period in history to build off. You have some lucky players. It sounds like, then, the city does rule some of the agricultural belt around it but that most of the economy works off trade and manufacturing. So, it seems like the important constituencies are going to be:(a) the merchants(b) the landowners(c) the artisans(d) the guard(e) the churchesRemember: land transfer in pre-modern societies was rarely accomplished through pure cash payment. Generally, the transfer of land required that many conditions be met.I would think so. It is pretty insulting; you're these people's master. If someone has business with them, they should talk to you. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Ok -- let's figure out who these masses are. I see four main categories:1. Agricultural Labourers: These people will live outside the city gates in the rural agricultural region around the city. They will be responsible to the local landowner.2. Urban Labourers: These people will be the intermittently employed muscle in the city, probably one-time refugees from the countryside. During times of siege, they are probably conscripted into militias; they are probably intermittently hired by merchants as ship labourer and to aid with unloading at the docks; during peaks in seasonal industries like fish-drying, wine-making, threshing, etc. they are probably hired to aid artisans. 3. Small Vendors: These people purchase discarded products in one area of the city, usually discarded or inferior, and sell them elsewhere at a minute profit. Or they will make inexpensive food for sale like bread. 4. Alms Collectors: There is often a seamless transition from category 3 to 4. Many small vendors are cripples or widows who perform some small service are, depending on their health and the time of year either type 3 or 4. Both of these groups benefit from any local dole like bread and circuses.5. Stigmatized Aristans: Often people who practice certain trades perceived to be unclean or otherwise problematic, though technically part of the artisan order, are treated like the bottom rung of sociey. Pearl divers, tanners, executioners and other people working in ritually or physically unclean industries, are treated socially on a par with alms collectors even though they might actually be relatively skilled or prosperous.</blockquote>

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