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For the purpose of this atlas, settlements have been divided into several categories: | For the purpose of this atlas, settlements have been divided into several categories: | ||
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== Cities == | == Cities == | ||
Cities are the largest settlements, but their main discriminating factor is that they have a local government structure and can pass their own laws. Most cities have a wall or other fortification and at least one market. They are typically a local center of economy and politics, and house several thousand or even ten-thousand people. | Cities are the largest settlements, but their main discriminating factor is that they have a local government structure and can pass their own laws. Most cities have a wall or other fortification and at least one market. They are typically a local center of economy and politics, and house several thousand or even ten-thousand people. | ||
Revision as of 07:54, 19 August 2020
For the purpose of this atlas, settlements have been divided into several categories:
Cities
Cities are the largest settlements, but their main discriminating factor is that they have a local government structure and can pass their own laws. Most cities have a wall or other fortification and at least one market. They are typically a local center of economy and politics, and house several thousand or even ten-thousand people.
Towns
The main feature of a town is that it has a market. Towns are smaller than cities, usually between 500 and 2,000 inhabitants, though the main difference is the lack of local laws - a town is fully under the control and governance of the local lord and its laws are the same as in the villages around.
Villages
Smaller than towns, and without a local market, villages are rural communities that can be as small as a dozen houses. The peasants will travel to the nearest town for most commerce.
Farmsteads
Farmsteads are large, individual farms, often inhabited by a single family with its hired hands, sometimes two families. They are often found in isolated places and on grounds not fertile enough to provide for an entire village.