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rampartc

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1. compare to the modern american city of millions
Fri Jun 21, 2019, 03:47 AM
Jun 2019

where overcrowding rarely leads to sniping with slingshpts.

sanitation must have been horrendous. the reason these early farmers must have kept so close was probably mutual defense (I guess). the city lasted for 1,000 years so they needed a good reason to stay together.

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