jan 1, 8000 BC - Light civilizationing

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Because of Agriculture...

We go through that process of civilization-ing that we're all so familiar with:

More food --> longer life expectancy --> lower mortality rates --> larger populations --> specialization of labor --> social hierarchies --> organized culture, politics, and belief systems --> technological advancements --> even more people (which calls for... more food!) and so on and so forth.

I'll probably go into specifics later.



NOTE THE MILLION CURRENCY-OF-CHOICE QUESTION: How can we define a civilization, and does the use of the word imply that societies that differ from that definition are less cool than we are?
(unanswered, or answered so complicatedly that I can't be bothered to write it out here; just think on it)

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