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Hey, it made us a agrarian society. Nothing more willing to settle down then a alcoholic needing wheat and honey.

• frozenport 10y ago
  Well the Mongolian horde drank a lot but wasn't very agrarian. You can ferment milk, for example.
  • Pica_soO 10y ago
    Got to herd cattle for that, got to travel alot to feed that cattle, got to fight other tribes to keep the cattle, got to have Kalashnikov and arrows to keep the cattle, got to trade those techs in with somebody who melts down iron and digs, got to trade them with food, got to make a long logic chain, to escape admitting you got a point, frozenport. It was a nice explanation for a otherwise disadvantages behavior, while it was blasted by he historians that lasted.
    • sethrin 10y ago
      No, the Mongols were nomadic, not agrarian, and the fermentation of alcohol does not require an agrarian society to produce. In point of fact, it is so easy to make alcohol that we can hardly keep people from doing so in prisons. Generally, people make and consume alcohol, whether or not they are interested in settling anywhere in particular. So, while you are generally correct that there are a number of factors that make the combination of agrarianism and alcohol production particularly successful, it's not a causal relationship.
      • Pica_soO 10y ago
        Eh, to substain a prison - you need a agrarian society. And yes, its easy to make- but is it also easy to keep up the supply during winter times? When the cows stop giving milk, the alcoholics have the civilization monkey on there back.