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Kilwa: A Swahili City Connected to the Indian Ocean

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Palaces, mosques and imported objects reveal a city whose inhabitants helped organize exchange between African hinterlands and the wider ocean.

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Why Bruges Lost Its Lead in European Trade

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Trace the interaction of changing waterways, competing markets and political conflict, then read the city’s later map as an argument for its future.

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Medieval Bruges: A Trading City Built Around Water

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Explore medieval Bruges through its waterways, outports and working spaces, and discover why its famous skyline tells only part of the story.

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Manchester’s Cotton Mills: How Cotton Reshaped a City

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Tall mills stood beside canals, with workers’ homes close behind. In Ancoats, Manchester’s industrial transformation can still be read through brick, water and the connections that reached across the Atlantic.

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One Town, Unequal Lives: What Pompeii Can Tell Us About Rome

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A courtyard could be a place to relax or a place to work. Pompeii reveals how ordinary activities connected people whose freedoms were far from equal—and why one town cannot tell the whole Roman story.

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Pompeii’s Houses: Where Home, Work and Status Met

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A garden could impress guests. An atrium could become a washing basin. Follow three Pompeian properties to see how home, work and status shared the same streets.

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How the First Cities Worked: Uruk and Mohenjo-daro

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A clay account and a brick well reveal two ways to read an early city. Compare the work, knowledge and authority that brought urban life together—and the burdens it placed on people.

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The Fall of Ur III: How Cities Outlived a Kingdom

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A kingdom could lose its provinces and capital without ending the history of its cities. Follow the fall of Ur III through clay records, remembered disaster and a later house at Ur.

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