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Grain culture vs rice culture. Rice cultivation requires collective water management, so you get more collectivist cultures. Growing grain mostly depends on ra
by enaaem 6mo ago
Grain culture vs rice culture.
Rice cultivation requires collective water management, so you get more collectivist cultures. Growing grain mostly depends on rain, so your harvest depends on your own work.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6mo agoThat's an interesting theory. Makes just as much sense as mine. It’s really hard to be empirical, in these types of things.
- enaaem 6mo agoThere was an experiment in China [1]. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-44770-w https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-44770-w