As you can tell my visual metaphor is a hourglass. As for the Classical time period is represented by the top half of the hourglass. This time period represents the start as in a hourglass the start is where they turn the glass over and the top half sand slowly falls down into the bottom half. The next part would be travel and Commerce which is represented by the moving sand. I chose this to represent travel and commerce because the sand is traveling to the other half of the hourglass. Next, I have represented medieval time period for the broken down village because the medieval time period was the dark age of Europe. After that, I represented Renaissance for the city with the most houses and the field because the Renaissance was the blossoming
