Huh, well that's interesting. I suppose they were just really scraping by and didn't have the excess most agricultural societies end up with? Just so different from North American settlement.Pretty much, what Faeelin said. It was settled by, as best I can tell from my own reading, free held farms that dotted the landscape. I would suspect these would bunch up from time to time, and that there were areas with more people (and the prosperous farms might have had small communities of workers and such living near by) but there weren't any towns in the way we think of them until much later.
Huh, well that's interesting. I suppose they were just really scraping by and didn't have the excess most agricultural societies end up with? Just so different from North American settlement.
Huh, well that's interesting. I suppose they were just really scraping by and didn't have the excess most agricultural societies end up with? Just so different from North American settlement.
By the start of the 13th century the island had a population of ~50,000 and was divided up into 10-12 districts. Each having their own chieftain that were loosely connected.