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Historically, this doesn't seem to be true. Villages appear long before defensive fortifications in the record, in many cases. Pure reason is not very good at
by dalbasal 5y ago
Historically, this doesn't seem to be true.
Villages appear long before defensive fortifications in the record, in many cases. Pure reason is not very good at forming predictive theories about history, as a general rule.
There are many possible reasons for villages, and cultural reasons are a very big determinant of how people live. So are economic reasons. Many of us live in big cities now, and it's generally less safe.
- dmoy 5y agoYou get villages because foraging really sucks. It's an ease-of-survival thing around food production.
- bluGill 5y agoForaging is done from villages as well. They tend to not have tents/houses, just a community fire that moves when the tribe moves. Still a village. Foraging sucks less than subsistence farming. However farmers are able to put a lot more people into given land area and so farming villages won out.
- bluGill 5y agoJust having a number of people living together is protection even before fortification. Your point is well taken though.