What is the progression rate in communites based on (read inside)?

Question

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a long time ago before the diffrent countries and continents had contact with each other, they all pregressed at their own rate

some countries may have been in the stone age, while some countries would be more advanced

for example: Rome was more advanced with roads and medicine before any other culture had this in thw world

i guess the question is; why were countries that were more advanced without getting ideas from other places (because of lack of maps, communication between countries and expolaration)a long time ago, more advanced or ahead of their time than other places?

Answer 1

An abundance of food is important. When people have to work less to feed themselves they have more energy and time to spend on thinking and evolving socially. Starvation also takes brainpower and make people slow at thought, when they have food the brain power blooms. Look at where you had many advanced civilizations in the past, it's often in very fertile areas, the Tigris and the Euphrates, the Nile and so on, people had a rich supply of food. The pressure to feed a growing population also create a demand for advances.

The same reason is behind why Europe later on developed faster and tried to conquer the world. In Europe we learned how to get greater and better crops and the it was the industrial revolution that made our food sources even more effective.

Look up Jared Diamond if you wish, "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" and "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" is books of his that touches the subject in different ways. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Diamo...