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Why not? Why does a bigger planet mean slower progress?
by cup-of-tea 9y ago
Why not? Why does a bigger planet mean slower progress?
- konart 9y agoNot a specialist here, but bigger distances will mean - more time to discover other places and other people which means you won't find new knowledge for some time and then you will need more time to bring it to your people. Slower trade too.
- cup-of-tea 9y agoBut it doesn't imply resources are more spread out. The only thing a smaller planet means is that your civilisation will more quickly be able to circumnavigate it, but that doesn't seem relevant at all.
- konart 9y ago>But it doesn't imply resources are more spread out No, but what the point of resources if you don't know how to use them? For example - paper. China had it for more than a thousand of years before it reached Europe. Papermaking gave a great boost to our civilization, but imagine our world with papermaking just being introduced to the middle east.
- zhte415 9y agoLess population density means less specialism. Higher population density allows the ability for some of the population to have the ability specialise (and by mixing with others in the same or allied specialisations in higher and higher populations, can allow increased returns to scale of what the individual is already specialised in).