Also TV had a large banking sector a la Venice or Florence. A lot of manufacturing (though no mention of textiles), and was clearly an entrepot (cargos arrive from all over, are broken up and repackaged and then sent off to customers/consumers in different directions--sort of like Troy/Byzantium and/or London, Amsterdam, Genoa, Venice, maybe Alexandria or the Caribbean Island of St Eustice until the 1780s. Seems to me RJ's descriptions are meant to evoke a lot of these places, as are his descriptions of other cities, especially in the South.
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- 22/03/2013 07:21:02 PM
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I'd guess trade routes
- 22/03/2013 11:33:46 PM
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Re: I'd guess trade routes
- 23/03/2013 07:32:05 AM
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Prostitution. Ladies will pay a lot for a special "pillow friend " 
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- 23/03/2013 01:18:09 AM
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- 23/03/2013 01:18:09 AM
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A couple more
- 23/03/2013 04:52:55 AM
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Egwene was really coming close to discovering the law of supply and demand with that one
- 23/03/2013 11:58:56 AM
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You get a ter'angreal! And you get a ter'angreal! EVERYONE GETS A TER'ANGREAL! *NM*
- 24/03/2013 07:20:13 AM
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As you say, the borderland sends them tribute, they rule the biggest city in the world
- 23/03/2013 03:15:09 PM
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Banking sector, manufacturing, and entrepot
- 10/04/2013 07:06:15 PM
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