It also seems ludicrous to me that cities are not built on high ground- as they always were when circumstance allowed- like Jerusalem. Rome was built on seven hills and Byzantium's wall systems were not breached until the Turks blew them down with cannon, some 1200 years after their cpnstruction! The city of Athens was built around the imposing fortified Acropolis. I am sick of seeing cities laid out on the same basic grid plan!įor example: the city of Carthage did in fact incorporate its port (a mighty structure which could dry dock 200 military ships and which also had an outer dock for merchant vessels, this could even be a Wonder!) into the city. I know I have! That is why I am suggesting that someone with the know-how and the spare time, could attempt to recreate some of the major cities of the ancient world as close to their original plans as possible.
Has anyone else noticed how none of the settlements in Rome: Total War are accurately recreated from historical evidence or texts?