How Did The Changes In Empires Encourage Urban Development

In the period 400-14450 Afro-Eurasia was home to the rise and fall of numerous empires. These interactions between people of different empires helped to encourage urban development. The process of decline and reconstruction in empires led to change in urban development by creating learning and religious centers and also by creating centers of trade within reconstructed empires, the trading centers most affected urban development.
Between 400-1450 CE the process of decline and reconstruction of empires led to changes in urban development by creating religious and learning centers within empires. For example in the Islamic Caliphate cities such as Mecca and Baghdad became very religious and learning centers of the empire grew. The growth of the empire brought people to its cities for religious purposes and for better education. This changed the urban development in the cities . This is because, as the Islamic Caliphate grew, more people went to the important cities in the empire. Mecca and Baghdad became much more popular. Because of

For example, cities like Constantinople in the Byzantine empire or Canton in several Chinese dynasties were centers of trade that influenced urban development. The growth of these cities let them become important piece of their empire. The population growth in their cities led to an increase in trade and invention of new technologies. Some of which are, astrolabe, lateen sails and saddles which made riding horses/camels easier. This is because as empires grew, their main trade cities grew in population, creating changes in urban development. However as empires declined it created forms of urban development such as feudalism and the rise of guilds. As the trade centers in the empire's decline, they gave way to new kinds of development that would be impossible to achieve within a flourishing