To understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities.
Throughout history, humankind has seen great societies flourish and fall, producing great cities. The most important characteristics of a society - how their people lived, their economy, how they connected with other societies, etc - are frequently observed on how their main cities were built, and are hard to be observed otherwise especially if the society no longer exists. Therefore, to understand them, one must study its major cities.
To illustrate, let's consider ancient Rome. By studying the ruins of the major cities this great society built over 2000 years ago, one can learn a great deal about how they lived. The place where military buildings were built within the cities suggests how they were organized and defended themselves from invaders. Looking to their main roads and aqueducts help us understand how important agriculture and trading were for their economies. Simply observing the number of buildings in the ruins of a city help us infer their population, something that would be very hard to infer by other ways.
These are few examples about what one can learn by only studying major cities of a society, but there is much more. It is important to highlight that, combining these studies with observations in other areas, such as weather, fauna and flora in the region the society lived, we can discover much more about the society.
Yet, it is possible to learn some characteristics of a society without necessarily studying its major cities. For example, one can infer a lot about an ancient society's diet by studying fossils, especially their teeth. However, these studies, combined with observations about how their cities were built, reveal even more about the topic being studied. In this example, looking at fossils from an ancient society, their teeth, one can conclude their people used to eat grains; combining this with studies of their cities, which could show ruins of mills, silos and roads, one could infer not only they used to eat grains, but how they prepared, stored and traded grains with neighbour societies.
The major traces of a society get imprinted on how they build, organize and grow their main cities. Thus, it is very important to study them in order to acquire a complete perspective on how this society came to be.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.3162921348 35% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 58.6224719101 87% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 12.9106741573 8% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1909.0 2235.4752809 85% => OK
No of words: 375.0 442.535393258 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09066666667 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40055868397 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54294911673 2.79657885939 91% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 215.323595506 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.509333333333 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 576.0 704.065955056 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 73.5786144202 60.3974514979 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.3125 118.986275619 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4375 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0625 5.21951772744 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.267440893772 0.243740707755 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111490482451 0.0831039109588 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.133178900208 0.0758088955206 176% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164857883085 0.150359130593 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0622965640792 0.0667264976115 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.1392134831 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 100.480337079 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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