Oceano
Banned
This is not actually a alternate but Future History question for a TL I plan one day, but the conditions might seem similar so I'm rolling with it.
So, I have this setting where:
- There's a oil peak collapse followed by a "dim age" from the late 21th century until the early 23th century. That's another story, actually.
- The "Dim Age" is followed by a "Atom Age" where the world is powered by atomic power of all sorts and human presence in the solar system is far greater than today.
- After that, NBC (mostly BC these days) war after a great conventional war. World is destroyed and shattered, your usual sci-fi post-apoc fare.
- In the brazilian amazon, surviving settlements use their remaining technology and industry to create riverine and maritime city-states. Many exist in the site of pre-war cities (different but recognizable evolutions of current day cities like Belém, Barcarena, Manaus, etc), others in new sites.
- Destruction of transportation infraestructure and increasing danger in the countryside means thatt ransportation is mainly done in the traditional way - Fluvial and maritime transportation through barges and boats. Between the cities, abandoned smaller towns, small settlements paying tribute to the bigger ones for protection, outlaws, farms, the jungle coming back, rivers, swamps, floodplains, etc.
My setting is pretty much envisaged as "post-apoc futuristic schizo-tech ancient greece in the brazilian amazon".
Anyway, my question is:
What conditions favour the development of city-states over other alternatives, and how to keep them that way for as long as possible?
So, I have this setting where:
- There's a oil peak collapse followed by a "dim age" from the late 21th century until the early 23th century. That's another story, actually.
- The "Dim Age" is followed by a "Atom Age" where the world is powered by atomic power of all sorts and human presence in the solar system is far greater than today.
- After that, NBC (mostly BC these days) war after a great conventional war. World is destroyed and shattered, your usual sci-fi post-apoc fare.
- In the brazilian amazon, surviving settlements use their remaining technology and industry to create riverine and maritime city-states. Many exist in the site of pre-war cities (different but recognizable evolutions of current day cities like Belém, Barcarena, Manaus, etc), others in new sites.
- Destruction of transportation infraestructure and increasing danger in the countryside means thatt ransportation is mainly done in the traditional way - Fluvial and maritime transportation through barges and boats. Between the cities, abandoned smaller towns, small settlements paying tribute to the bigger ones for protection, outlaws, farms, the jungle coming back, rivers, swamps, floodplains, etc.
My setting is pretty much envisaged as "post-apoc futuristic schizo-tech ancient greece in the brazilian amazon".
Anyway, my question is:
What conditions favour the development of city-states over other alternatives, and how to keep them that way for as long as possible?