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> Grow some crops? An invading army will come and steal and trample them. That actually didn't happen the waste majority of cases. > Start a trading enterpris

> Grow some crops? An invading army will come and steal and trample them. That actually didn't happen the waste majority of cases. > Start a trading enterprise? Your ship will get raided by pirates or you die of tropical diseases. Again, most of the time that didn't happen. And you often didn't die of tropical diseases either. > Mine for coal? A coal heap will bury your town or you'll die in a collapse. Most towns were not buried and most coal miners don't die in collapses.

puranjay 4y ago
> That actually didn't happen the waste majority of cases That's literally the reason for practically all empires and imperial expansions. Rome didn't conquer Spain because they liked the weather.
- panick21_ 4y ago
  > That's literally the reason for practically all empires and imperial expansions. That doesn't change the numbers involved. Most things that farmers sowed for most of history didn't get burned by invading armies.
wl 4y ago
>> Grow some crops? An invading army will come and steal and trample them. > That actually didn't happen the waste majority of cases. It happened in many prominent cases. Egypt, for example, was called "the breadbasket of Rome."
- panick21_ 4y ago
  Yes but not because armies rampaged over Egypt over and over again. Rome was just another state taxing the farmers.
  - wl 4y ago
    There's a lot of military conquest in Egyptian history. The Hyksos, the Kushites, the Saites, the Persians, the Ptolemies, and finally the Romans.