/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2905187
2. If Jamal is a hunter gatherer in Africa, and his tribe has hit a stride that has given them a steady meal for the past few months, he's not going to stop and ask his tribe to develop a written language or philosophize about the world. Hell no, you follow their food source and fatten up for the inevitable drought or some other natural disaster that'll destroy game populations or wild plants where food is harvested from. You can't pay someone to be a professional black smith or develop science and technology if there's no communal food supply. Nope, instead everyone spends their life expending their energy in finding their next meal, even if that means not upgrading out of your hut made of renewable that are effective at keeping the inside at a comfortable temperature, easily repairable, and hold up well in extremely dry and extremely wet seasons.

3. Sheep, swine, oxen, bovine, horses, all but one (the Llama) modern day farm mammals originated in the Middle East. These animals are extremely important to begin large civilization where science and technology can be developed passed the bronze age because even though there were ancient civilizations like the Aztecs in South America, and the Zulus in Africa for example, “primitive” civilizations where there was a fairly complex economic trade taking place, but no written language, lacked farm animals that could plough fields, act as nature's agricultural machinery (oxen, horses) or provide a reliable source of protein in the form of meat and milk and keep you warm for the cold European winters (cows, sheep, and pigs). And again, these farm animals originated in the Middle East and the animals could only thrive in areas with similar climates and biomes (+/- 15 degrees latitude).