Where there's water, there is an influx of strangers, of new goods, of new ideas. Cities and empires on waters are more open, more liberal, more progressive than land based cities. You see the same pattern in Europe.
Compare Athens with Sparta. The Greek island states with Persia. Russia and England. Catalonia and Castillia. It is a universal pattern, as old as civilization.
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