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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 498703" data-attributes="member: 1125">I've been wondering about the Historic 'How' of large cities as in 'How did they get started' and 'How do they maintain themselves'It would seem that the Mega cities (over 1 million people) would need some kind of rationale other than the King built it in order to attract people into it especially once the monster threat was undercontrol (and the area no longer frontier).In the past I have had only 3 cities with over a Million people - Ti'en - the City of Heaven capital of the Mongol Inspired, Continent-spanning 'Yuan Empire' in which Torgul Khan dwells in Splendour surrounded by his Khitaian BereaucracyBishnagar - the Center of the World Center of both the East-West 'Silk Road' and the North-South 'Caravan Trails' a City built on its dominance of International TradeandAnziko the Beacon of Light Capital of the Empire of Anziko based in my antidiluvean medieval Africa setting of Ko-Anziko (back when the Congo basin was still a gigantic freshwater sea). any other city I have ever run has been a few thousand at most I consider 30000 to be huge....</blockquote>