Writing about cities.

Writing about cities. 

When agriculture started to dominate people, the next level of this kind of advantage was that cities were formed. In the medieval period, cities were dirty and the narrow places, but the thing is that the cities were cleaner what people normally think. The cities were surrounded by the walls, and they were independent states. 

The farmland surrounded those cities, and the thing was that if somebody wanted to circle the city by using military power, that person must just occupy the farmland, and then the food was ended sooner or later. And that was one reason for the walls, what was build for protecting the city. The walls gave also the ability to control the supplies, which were brought to the city. 

People were of course scared almost dead, by telling stories about demons, what are controlling other cities, that they were not flee from their small world. Somebody believes that the tales about demons, what were control of other cities gave the background for the modern tales about alien bases, and in the medieval period, the cities were isolated from other lands. 

Life was easier in the cities, and one reason why cities became so popular was that the people could live there "incognito". There were no bandits in the cities, and that caused that life was safer. But of course, drunken people and street gangs caused troubles in the cities. 

And the city allowed to control people. The eavesdropping and other kinds of things were much easier in the cities than in some house in the forest. The spy could slip out of the house and escape to the middle of people. The thing, that interested the king was what was not told to him, and that's why that person needed a network of informers. 

In many medieval paintings, the parts city is painted blue. Another version is that the houses are yellow or red, which was the color of the king. Or people are wearing those colors. The reason for that was that in the city were many people, who were wanted to tell things for the king. And that's why some count must be careful what to say. 

Many people hated that man and the reason for that was that count gave sometimes very tough punishments. If count would say something bad about the king, there was a possibility, that somebody would tell that thing to majesty, who sends sheriffs and soldiers to arrest that poor man, who was so reckless. 

Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_art