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# Commerce of Towns
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## Definition
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The commercial activities and trading relationships that develop in urban
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centres, creating markets for rural produce and generating wealth that flows
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back to improve agricultural lands and rural conditions through land purchases,
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improvements, and the introduction of order and good government.
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## Source Chapter
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Book III, Chapter 4
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## Context
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This chapter's central concept explaining how urban commercial activity drives
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rural improvement through three mechanisms: creating markets for agricultural
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produce, wealthy merchants purchasing and improving uncultivated lands, and
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gradually introducing order and good government to rural areas that previously
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lived in continual war and servile dependency.
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## Economic Domain
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Exchange
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