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Originally Posted by Abacab "The REAL truth"
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Woah econ professor, I don't mean to bust your balls but I'm fairly certain labor is considered a resource, and shit like oxen would fall underneath this. Only an idiot would believe that isolated villages in sub-Sahara Africa, or packs of nomads living in the cold, barren, Mongolian steppes would have had the same resource advantages as the Middle East, Central Europe, and coastal Asian countries.
You're trying to knock me for a simplistic example that only scratches 1% of the reason why certain societies by-passed others, I don't have the time to write a 110 page thesis over human progress from the stone age and on, but if you missed my point that "some areas have advantages over others" and that greatly influenced the way society was forged then the only thing you're doing right now is trolling.
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No, I'm trying to knock you because I think you either didn't read the book or else you didn't understand it. Culture doesn't advance when everybody is busy scratching a subsistence living out of a dirt farm. That's Diamond's thesis on why the golden crescent dominated.