RE: How were past times so violent?
April 19, 2020 at 10:49 am
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2020 at 10:54 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I'll just drop a quick link and a short comment because I geek out out this stuff. Don't wanna fully derail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultur...iddle_Ages
Highlights would include the heavy plow, the harrow, the hoe, the horse collar, tandem harnesses, horseshoes, and three field rotation schemes. The tillage and fertility that modern industrial agriculture are based on are all right there. They used manure instead of oil - and we use machines to pull the tools.
The villa rustica model was different from the labor used, to the tools available, to the management practices involved. As a result, medieval ag was tremendously more productive and could support conflict the likes of which the roman empire, at it's height, could never have imagined. It took fewer and fewer of us to support the rest, including soldiers, and many farmers were also soldiers (though in strictly fuedal divisions of labor the serfs would not be expected to wage war against the military caste - basically sending livestock to slaughter). That continues to this day.
When we add the advent of credible ranged weaponry that was simple for a peasant to use - we've completed every necessary step for the current state of war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultur...iddle_Ages
Highlights would include the heavy plow, the harrow, the hoe, the horse collar, tandem harnesses, horseshoes, and three field rotation schemes. The tillage and fertility that modern industrial agriculture are based on are all right there. They used manure instead of oil - and we use machines to pull the tools.
The villa rustica model was different from the labor used, to the tools available, to the management practices involved. As a result, medieval ag was tremendously more productive and could support conflict the likes of which the roman empire, at it's height, could never have imagined. It took fewer and fewer of us to support the rest, including soldiers, and many farmers were also soldiers (though in strictly fuedal divisions of labor the serfs would not be expected to wage war against the military caste - basically sending livestock to slaughter). That continues to this day.
When we add the advent of credible ranged weaponry that was simple for a peasant to use - we've completed every necessary step for the current state of war.
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