The birth of Joey Freshwater . <| sep |> Literally . You build you city of Bestburg in a location with easy access to water , farmland and on a hill defensible and has a good line of sight . Bad guys show up , kill you , enslave your women and burn your town . Except that there is still a location with easy access to water , farmland and on a hill defensible and has a good line of sight , which they now have to themselves . So they , or you , or someone else , build a new settlement on the nearly same or the same location , almost literally in the rubble of Bestburg . The cycle repeats . Replace bad guys with random natural disasters , such as citywide fires , as necessary . Locations generally remain favourable throughout history . Hence you have not one but nine cities of Troy in the same location .