Western Civilization I / Unit 18 WC1 1727 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Join: The City Three Times
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The idea
Uruk was a temple's redistributive economy; Constantinople was a walled court with a silk monopoly and a million people, the anchor says; medieval towns were chartered communes; Florence was a banking republic that turned money into art.
In practice
Entries 0007, 0813, 1016 and 1209.
Where people slip
Ask what each city ran on: temple, court, charter, bank.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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