A society with a small GDP is poor. And that was reflected in statistics like extremely high infant mortality rates within indigenuous populations pre-integrati

A society with a small GDP is poor. And that was reflected in statistics like extremely high infant mortality rates within indigenuous populations pre-integration. There was some decline in quality of life in the transition from hunter-gatherer life to early agricultural life, but there is still a huge gap between the quality of life in hunter-gatherer societies, or medieval agricultural societies, and modern societies.