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Comment by sgt101

4 months ago

Although, gradually, all over the world people chose that lifestyle rather than take their chances with the seasons and the hunt.

Chose is a little strong. They were forced into it because agricultural societies could field armies orders of magnitude larger than hunter/gatherers.

It's telling that the nobles of agricultural societies generally still hunted, and often reserved that privilege.

Mostly because if you settled down a tilled a field of barley you had a reliable source of beer. Finding beer in the wild was and still is an almost certain failure.

The roots of global civilization are brown and frothy.

  • So what you're telling me is that I am genetically predisposed to brew and drink beer?

    Explains a lot.

    Explains it to my satisfaction!