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To: douginthearmy

Nope.

I think the group that discovered animal husbandry could support a much more dense population and therefore had a military advantage over dispersed and sparse population of hunter-gatherers. Same thing with agriculture, around the same time.

IOW, he had a bigger stick because he discovered animal husbandry.


14 posted on 06/02/2011 7:33:52 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

Well, yes exactly. But that’s not what I gathered from your first post. Granted a “wimp” by today’s standard would certainly not have existed in early times. But simply judging by historical reference of inventors throughout time, the first guy to grow some corn or pick a potato was probably not the toughest guy in the tribe. To get those agricultural societies to support those large armies required some initial wimps to discover what turned out to be better food sources.


20 posted on 06/02/2011 8:17:27 PM PDT by douginthearmy
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