The market or the library first?
A new city builds its heart, and the money covers one building now: a market gathering caravans and craftsmen so the city lives, or a school and library gathering scholars so its children learn? The decision: today's bread or tomorrow's learning?
The positions
the market party
without bread there is no city and no seeking knowledge
The evidence
the great cities raised their markets first and everything flowered around
Sources: exhibit/pathway-g4-social-studies-four-citiesplace/baghdad
the school party
a rich ignorant city dies; learning makes the wealth
The evidence
Baghdad and Cordoba gathered scholars before their markets were famed
Sources: exhibit/pathway-g4-social-studies-four-citiesplace/cordoba
You decide
Which would you build first planning a city? Write your reason.
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