1. What are the similarities and differences of ancient cities compared to modern cities?

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1. What are the similarities and differences between ancient cities and modern cities,

2. What does it mean that Dayu made the "Nine Kingdoms" and the "Nine Tripods"?

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1. What are the similarities and differences between ancient cities and modern cities

In ancient times, cities were basically agrarian civilizations, and the role of cities was limited to politics and military. As a result, the economic role of cities was not obvious. Instead, many large and small cities were built on the water, and the tall walls of the cities were characterized by military purposes. Modern cities have a more important commercial role, like the largest city of Shanghai.

2. What does it mean that Dayu made the "nine states" and the "nine tripods"?

The division of the nine states is not a division of cities, like the division of provinces in modern times, but more of a regional characteristic. The specifics can be found in the Records of the Grand Historian, where the landscape and topography of the nine states are recorded in great detail.

It embodies the centralized system of power.