Walls or water for Damascus?
Damascus after years of siege and dearth can afford one great project: restoring its walls and gates against the age's armies, or laying the channels and repairing the rivers and bathhouses that water the city every day? The decision: protection or life?
The positions
the walls party
the open city is taken before it can drink
The evidence
they renewed walls and towers in every fearful reign
the water party
without water there is no wall and no people; the channels water all
The evidence
they repaired the channels and bathhouses and life returned to the quarters
Sources: place/damascus
You decide
Which would you have built first as governor? Write your reason.
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