>Hunter gatherer societies actually had lots of free time. Finding food wasn't a constant struggle. If hunter gathers had so much free time, they must have had

>Hunter gatherer societies actually had lots of free time. Finding food wasn't a constant struggle. If hunter gathers had so much free time, they must have had a lot of sex. And yet despite this, their populations never reached that of agrarian societies. This means that either they didn't live such abundant lives or they did for certain period and either starved or killed each other when their environment reached carrying capacity. >What farming societies had is organization of force and a concept of land ownership What farming society had was organization and numbers. It's odd to claim that people who grew up with a hoe or parchment end up more violent than those that grew up with a bow. Until the invention of firearms, hunter gatherers tended to be the better fighters. The way that kings and emperors defeated them was my pitting them against each other, but if they managed to unite, they were unstoppable, like Atila the Hun or Genghis Khan.